I’ve just finished my MR at Megève - huge entertainment and very illuminating. For simple flying in the mountains good sense is great, but if you want to land somewhere like Val Thorens then, in my humble opinion, doing it without instruction will make for an interesting AAIB report. Until you are in the mountains you can’t really envisage that there simply is no go around. Once you are on finals, that’s it. You land come what may.. I would thoroughly recommend Megève - I booked ahead of time, which for the summer is essential - like three months ahead. They are super busy from open to close. Having said that Bruno still managed to squeeze me in last minute for a few extra flights which was extremely good of him. These guys know their mountain flying and its a pleasure to learn in that environment. I’ll be going back to do it on Skis in April...