Skiing shortly – we spy out Zermatt

Wow! The world’s best ski scenery and longest ski runs are here in Zermatt, which attracts the planet’s top skiers, Matterhorn viewers, poseurs as well as winter sports lovers.

This dream destination boasts Europe’s highest cable car station, Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, 12,739 feet high and riding it is a must do. ne of the most exciting things to do And then there is the skiing, hundreds of kilometers of snowsure runs for all grades, and served by a typical Swiss-efficient lift system.

From the highest start point you can ski the thigh-burning run from the cable station to the Italian resort of Cervinia.

Good Ski Guide is sending a three-person team to review this mega region, and our Ski Spy reader-reporters will fit in the skiing in time off from a conference of lifesavers.

Chief ski spy is Iain Beardsell, who is a leading lifesaver at Southampton General Hospital, serving the massive seaport and large city. Accompanied on this trip of a lifetime with partner Victoria Jackson and son Fred.

The trio will be blogging and podcasting for you from the famous old town next week, so keeping logging on to www.goodskiguide.com and you’ll wish you were there.

As the world’s most loved, most-photographed peak, the Matterhorn at 14,692? will thrill you like nowhere else – all

wow factor view

amid vast alpine terrain, unrivalled scenery, Europe’s highest skiing with the longest snow season in the Alps.

The fairy-tale resort spans 360 kilometres of marked  pistes (runs) in four ski regions - all interconnected with amazing lifts – trains, trams, funiculars, gondolas and chairs. Zermatt’s ski slopes are huge, long, and varied, and you are bound to love it, perhaps not your ski legs and thighs.

Iain Beardswell-Victoria Jackson-Fred