It’s a crisp, snowy Monday morning in Alpbach, in the glorious Austrian Tyrol, and I’m standing in a line of skiers, new salopettes chafing slightly around my waist. Strangers on skis stand on either ...

It's not hard to see why Alpbach was voted the prettiest village in Austria in a television poll. Its timbered houses are all built in the traditional chalet style of overhanging eaves and carved ...

Peter Hardy blows the cover on one of the British Army's best kept secrets: the pretty Austrian village of Alpbach. In the snug parlour of an ancient inn in one of the most beautiful villages in ...

Ski Juwel Alpbachtal Wildschönau is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and from the tree-lined slopes to the charming villages of the Alpbachtal and Wildschönau, it’s not hard to see why the ...

For most New Yorkers, ski season typically means a trek up to Vermont and a weekend swooshing the slopes at Stowe. But perhaps it’s time to consider skiing that’s a bit more exotic — and far flung — ...

For those who weren’t born sliding down the slopes, come November when the ski season kicks off, rumours of legendary aprés-ski, panoramic mountain lunches and steamy spas might have you warming up to ...

Some of Austria’s prettiest Alpine villages are scattered around the four mountains that make up Ski Juwel Alpbachtal Wildschönau. Its 109km ski area – one of the largest in the Austrian Tirol – ...

There are 121 ski areas in Austria's Tyrol region. Some of them are very small: the skiing at Hoch Imst, above the Inn Valley, about 50 kilometres west of Innsbruck, amounts to no more than nine ...