A mountain for everyone. Because true luxury is access.
Snow doesn't ask permission. Yet the mountain — with its ski lifts, its slopes, its luxury hotels — has long been a place reserved for the few. We are trying to change that. One adaptive device at a time.
The Alta Badia is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Anyone who has been here knows it: the Dolomites framing silent valleys, snow transforming every slope into something irresistible, the lights of mountain huts flickering on at dusk. It is a place that stays with you. And yet, for many people, it has remained out of reach — not for lack of desire, but for lack of the right tools.
The mountain is one of the most exclusive places that exists — in the most literal sense of the word. It excludes. Not out of malice, but out of inertia.
When we talk about regenerative tourism, we don't simply mean respecting the environment or reducing the carbon footprint of a stay. We mean something more ambitious: building experiences that regenerate social bonds, that widen the circle of those who can feel they belong to a place. For us, regeneration also means restoring dignity and the possibility of access to those who have been excluded.
It is no coincidence that this initiative was born in the Alta Badia. The Casa Costa 1956 group has built, over time, an idea of hospitality that goes beyond welcoming guests: it extends to the territory, the community, and those who live in these places or who simply wish they could. The Foundation is the part of that project entrusted with translating that vision into action — concrete, measurable, permanent.
The B.A.S.S. — Borney Adapted Snowboard System
For this reason, we are proud to announce that Casa Costa Foundation ETS has funded the purchase of a B.A.S.S. — Borney Adapted Snowboard System, the world's first adaptive device designed specifically to bring people with disabilities closer to snowboarding. It was created by Andrea Borney — snowboard instructor from Courmayeur and President of Lymph Foundation ETS, a foundation that has long been working on inclusion through adapted sport and scientific research. The B.A.S.S. is the most tangible expression of that vision: a versatile and effective tool, validated with people living very different conditions — cerebral palsy, severe functional limitations, intellectual disabilities. Not a niche device, but a tool designed to be genuinely useful.
The equipment will be made available by the Foundation to the Alta Badia year-round, entrusted to specially trained ski instructors certified to teach winter sports to people with disabilities. A permanent resource, not a one-off event.
The adaptive equipment in Alta Badia — thanks to our partnership with Fondazione Allianz UmanaMente:
- B.A.S.S. – Borney Adapted Snowboard System (new)
- Dual ski and mono ski for adapted alpine skiing (donated by Fondazione Allianz UmanaMente)
- Ski instructors trained and certified to teach people with disabilities (thanks to Fondazione Allianz UmanaMente)
Hol4All — the network that makes all of this possible
This step forward is also made possible by the Hol4All project of Fondazione Allianz UmanaMente, which brings holidays into the lives of people and families who often cannot afford them — not only financially, but also for logistical and accessibility reasons. The stop in Corvara on 27 March 2026 is one of the concrete moments of this journey: a day on the snow that, for many, will be the first. One of those days that stays with you.
Our partnership with Fondazione Allianz UmanaMente is rooted in a shared belief: holidays, sport, the mountains — these are not luxuries. They are rights. And when people work together — with the right tools, the right expertise, and a clear intention — it becomes possible to turn that belief into something real.
We don't want symbolic gestures. We want to build infrastructures of access that endure, that grow, that become standard practice.
There is still much to do. An inclusive mountain is not built with a single device, nor with a single day on the snow. But every piece matters. The B.A.S.S. joins the dual ski and mono ski already available, and together they form a small but growing arsenal of possibilities. The trained instructors are the human network that gives meaning to the tools. The partnerships — with Fondazione Allianz UmanaMente, with ski schools, with local structures — are the connective tissue that makes all of this actually work.
Corvara, the Alta Badia, the Dolomites: these are places that take your breath away. We are working so that moment — the breath stolen by the snow, the peaks, the light — is not reserved for those lucky enough to arrive here without obstacles. The mountain is not something you earn. It is something you inhabit. And we want everyone to be able to inhabit it.
