Experts can enjoy wonderful off-piste and the only heliskiing allowed in Austria. Neighbouring St Anton and Stuben are famous ...

If your priority is to stay in a picturesque ski resort with a warmly welcoming atmosphere, Austria will deliver. Many of its ski destinations have grown up around traditional farming villages, where ...

You’ll find traditional Austrian cuisine (schnitzel ... While Lech has an outsize reputation as a ski town these days, it’s easy to forget that people have lived here for centuries and ...

Deep inside Europe’s “other” mountain range, the Pyrenees, Baqueira-Beret is Spain’s largest ski resort. It has recently ...

Second, Lech’s altitude is around 1,450 meters (4,740 feet, with skiing that ascends as high as 2,800 meters; many of Austria’s 400 ski resorts are situated much lower. Third, Lech’s ...

French resorts aren’t the only ones struggling: high temperatures last February also left ski towns in Austria, Bosnia, Italy, Spain and Switzerland on their knees. Those at low and medium ...