Anyone who has been in Klosters in January in the past nine years or so will have probably seen the Flying Grannies (the FG’s). They are a group of Ladies who leave the Wynegg at around 8.30am and do not return until dusk or later. To the people who have seen them scuttling along to …
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A Winter’s Work for a Mountain Guide
As the new winter approaches I thought I would tell you where my work as a Mountain Guide took me last skiing season. Last winter kicked off with a ski touring trip to one of my favourite places in the whole of the Alps: the Grand Saint Bernard Monastery. It is completely cut off in …
Crossing An Alpine Pass On Ski
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894 This piece recounts the first ski tour done in the Alps. “An entrepreneurial Swiss saddle maker is credited with bringing skis to Davos and publicising their use through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Tobias Branger first saw skis in 1889 at a trade fair in Paris. …