Switzerland
10,000 metres of altitude in one day. Nothing makes a day of skiing quite like frantic racing around a resort, skiing no run or lift twice, completing the last run of the route at 4.55pm in the dusk, finishing by downing shots from a ski. A-mazing.
www.zermatt.ch/en/page.cfm/experience/skiing_snowboarding/matterhorn_ski_safari
Google map: bit.ly/PoP2lE
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