Summer skiing

Hintertux - the summer heaven for skiers. A glacier, it is the only one in Austria open for business 365 days a year. With that in mind, in this review we focus exclusively on skiing outside of the winter season.

As the highest situated resort in Europe, Zermatt-Breuil-Cervinia-Valtournenche is, on paper, quite the attraction for the ski enthusiast. The lifts on the Plateau Rosa glacier are open nearly year-round, and the thickness of snow cover rarely dips below a meter. Still, it remains an unpopular choice among skiers, and so we set out to find why.