The great runs.
Winter at the top of the Alps is the oldest season of old money. The resorts, the races and the runs that made them.
Winter at the top of the Alps is the oldest season of old money. The resorts, the races and the runs that made them.
1931The first Hahnenkamm race
The Hahnenkamm race has been run on the Streif above Kitzbühel since 1931, every January, and the town fills for the weekend. The Lauberhorn in Wengen, first run in 1930, is the longest downhill on the World Cup circuit.
1928St. Moritz's first Winter Olympics
St. Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and again in 1948. Courchevel sits at the heart of Les Trois Vallées, and its 1850 village is where the grand chalets are. Zermatt is skied under the Matterhorn and across the border into Italy.
In America, Aspen keeps the same calendar on its 4 mountains.
St. Moritz🇨🇭 Switzerland
Courchevel🇫🇷 France
Zermatt🇨🇭 Switzerland
Kitzbühel🇦🇹 Austria
Verbier🇨🇭 Switzerland
Aspen🇺🇸 Colorado, United StatesSources. Hahnenkamm-Rennen Kitzbühel · Lauberhornrennen Wengen · St. Moritz · Courchevel. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here.
Twice, in 1928 and 1948.
Every January, on the Streif in Kitzbühel, where it has been run since 1931.
The Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland, first run in 1930.
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