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...Little surprise that the resulting architecture was so bold, an imposition of modernity on the mountain landscape....
...The Fleissalm tunnel lift, a bizarre subterranean gondola that spits skiers into the bowl to the east, is windproof but only opens for weekends....
...theedition94.com Billy chair from By Lydia, £3,600 Made in the UK and upholstered in 100 per cent shearling with a beech and birch wood frame. bylydia.co Goat Head handle by Beardmore, from £120 Embrace mountain...
...“They’re as passionate about ski racing as I am, that lot,” says Ryding. “They understand it’s like a drug: the sense of freedom, charging down the mountain. You’ve got to enjoy yourself after that.”...
...Some would be invited to stay with Benko at his chalet in the mountains nearby, or else at the Chalet N luxury hotel Signa owned in Lech, one of the most expensive ski resorts in the Alps....
...“My father was a mountain guide, a hunter and a crystal collector — and we did everything together as a family,” said Konrad smiling....
...Sitting in the Swiss canton of Valais, roughly 2.5 hours from Geneva, it regularly hosts downhill ski races, the Omega European Masters golf tournament, and in 2025 it will host the Mountain Bike World Championships...
...The US corporation — owner of 41 other ski resorts — is acquiring 84 per cent of the lift and mountain operations, and 11 restaurants....
...(Every window has a built-in seat; most have a mountain view.)...
...It’s an area that has had a swath of hotel openings recently, including My Arbor, a five-star “tree hotel” that stands on the edge of a forest on 66 stilts, and offers ski-in, ski-out access to the slopes...
...Meadows like this, where cattle, sheep and goats are brought to graze in summer, are the essence of these mountains: an “alp” or “alpe” (or “Alm” in German) is a high pasture, often concealed on a mountain...
...A 10-minute walk from the Shadow Mountain chairlift, the hotel’s roof-terrace lounge bar, with plunge pool and views of Aspen Mountain, promises to become a fixture on the après-ski scene....
...Teenagers commuting to the ski lift the next morning turn out to be Canadian champions....
...In 2019, it acquired Peak Resorts, the owner of 17 ski resorts including Hunter Mountain in New York and Mount Snow in Vermont, for roughly $264mn....
...But I think with both cities as well, you end up getting the best of kind of winter and spring in one, because you can ski on the local mountains, and you can also sort of have these amazing days sort of...
...Particularly popular is the “ski the last degree” expedition, where guests are dropped by plane 69 miles from the Pole (one degree of latitude), then trek there on skis over about five days, giving those...
...I knew there were some really nice mountains to ski and climb in Montenegro and Kosovo but I really never realised how much potential these mountains had.”...
...time to learn about the craft of moving safely in the mountains....
...A tiny new ski rental shop with a bare chipboard frontage was beginning to ship in big-mountain skis. It had not yet acquired a name....
...We ate from a shared bowl of pasta mixed with fried vegetables....
...His grandsons are not much older than my nephews and the shares in their mini-portfolio are brands they can identify with, such as Hollywood Bowl, Greggs and Sainsbury’s supermarket....
...Hunter recycled polyester Wanderer boots, £150....
...The Josef Kreidl Hütte was built for hunters in 1958 and named in honour of a local lumberjack killed in an accident....
...We are alone with the mountain. Toshi breaks the moment and cuts the first line into the bowl beneath us, painting long, swooping turns across the blank canvas of snow....
...One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
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