It’s a dog’s life in a ski resort, what with pulling sledges and finding avalanche victims, as our feature on Snow Dogs shows. But Snow Cats also have their role to play. No, we’re not talking about...
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It’s time we put Engelberg back on the skiing map. For years it’s been neglected by the English-speaking world, and it deserves more respect – as both a great resort for ski weekends, and the...
They’re up and skiing in the southern hemisphere! It’s a fairly tentative start to the season – but ski resorts are now open in South America, New Zealand and Australia. Most of the rest will be...
Well – what a month May was. As you’ll have seen from our snow reports – on May 24 and May 30 – the weather got pretty weird last month, and brought over a metre of snow to the upper slopes of...
Last autumn, the Price family won a winter's-worth of ski holidays in the Three Valleys of France. Now they're at the end of their journey, what have they learnt?
It's nice weather, if you're a husky. For nearly a week now the Alps have been hit by heavy snow - falling right down to resort level on several occasions.
The apres-ski in Engelberg is much, much better than you’d expect from a town of 3,600 souls. The inhabitants of nearby Luzern treat Engelberg as their weekend retreat, which has given the...
Schischule Engelberg is Engelberg’s main school – but it’s not without competition. Prime Engelberg runs an innovative programme of courses and clinics – one of which is a two...
When it comes to lunch on the mountain, Engelberg is no match for the likes of Zermatt or the Val di Fassa in the Dolomites. That’s not to say the food’s bad: but you should expect hearty...
There’s no shortage of hotels in Engelberg, including several four-stars with spas and swimming pools. The best of these is the Hotel Waldegg: provided you book into one of the recently...
