You’ve heard of Verbier, St. Moritz, Zermatt and Gstaad. Now up-and-coming Andermatt has officially entered rarified air. Andermatt is now a world-class ski destination. Switzerland has never looked ...

It has been a hard slog, and the cold creeping its way into my jacket is letting me know I should have invested in neckwear, but finally, I’m picking up speed. However, so is a large Volkswagen ...

Andermatt, a village sequestered high in the Swiss Alps, has always attracted a cosmopolitan clientele incongruous with its remote location 4,715 feet above sea level. Nestled in a meadow with ...

It is risky going back to somewhere you really loved. Nostalgia plays tricks and raises expectations, erasing the traffic noise, the clouds from the sky, and the seaweed from the beach. And what if ...

From as far back as I can remember, I grew up looking at a photo in my grandfather’s office of his “family home” in Switzerland. The chalet amongst the forested mountains looked unreal, even as a ...

That’s what my ski instructor Mata de told me during lunch at the Restaurant Alpsu after a thrilling one-to-one lesson in the Swiss Alps. If someone told me that before I visited, I would have laughed ...

Ski touring in the Alps can be "glorious", taking you away from the crowds and into snowy valleys so "still and silent", you might imagine yourself in Antarctica. The most famous ski tour adventure is ...

Though it's only 9pm when my train pulls into Andermatt, the streets are deserted. The falling snow muffles any sound and looks as though it hasn't stopped for days, if not weeks. Huge mounds have ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gemsstock, a ski vantage point beloved by off-piste schussers high in the Alps, towers above the sleepy Swiss ...

The Swiss village of Andermatt knows a lot about the abundant possibilities related to travel. Situated high in the Alps, narrow mountain passes head in four different directions and business ...

At least two people were injured and “a number” of people buried when an avalanche swept down a ski slope in Andermatt, Switzerland, state police said Thursday. “We believe there are more people ...