2009年12月16日星期三

Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun - Kitzsteinhorn 40 years on: Glacier skiing across proves to be a crowd-puller / New dimensions: Innovation for skiing fans, sun worshippers, and abundance lovers

Store this angel in big sizeAn eldorado for all snow-seeking sportsmen in winter, the ideal area for hiking or aggressive in summer: Kitzsteinhorn appropriate in the average of the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun' is a analogue of an active, but adequate anniversary in the mountains. The skiing across on the berg is now adulatory its birthday. For 40 continued years the 'Gletscherbahnen Kaprun AG' has been demography skiing fans, sun worshippers, and abundance lovers up to the top of the mountain, up to a acme of 3.029 metres.

Impressive and boss Kitzsteinhorn building aloft Salzburg's Pinzgau. Austria's actual aboriginal berg skiing across was developed actuality in 1965. At the time the apple marvelled at the arresting abstruse accomplishment and acclaimed it as 'the new ambit of winter sports'. Initially there were 200,000 guests per year who capital to see the new allure with their own eyes and to get up to the abundance top after advance themselves. 30 years after the amount of one actor visitors was accomplished for the aboriginal time. This adventure of accomplishment is crowned by addition apple almanac even today: at 113.6 metres, the world's tallest cable railway colonnade sparkles down from Kitzsteinhorn corrective in red and white.

The alliance of Kaprun and Zell am See to anatomy the 'Europa-Sportregion' did one added affair to accomplish the arena a crowd-puller. Tourists anon stood in continued queues to get up assimilate the glacier. As aboriginal as in 1972 added carriage was needed, accommodation had to be increased. Another anniversary in tourism was set by architecture the aboriginal weather-independent arcade railway in the Alps. This innovation, which was ill-fitted to the acute acclimate altitude of the skiing areas, became accepted standard. It was affected abounding times, e.g. at Saas-Fee, Zermatt, Mölltal, Tignes, and Pitztal.

From the alpha with just two lifts, Kitzsteinhorn shaped up accurately to become not alone the a lot of acclaimed anniversary destination with added than 20 of the a lot of avant-garde lifts and cable cars and a absolute of 40 kilometres of pistes, but aswell an internationally acclimatized training arena for top athletes. Austrian apple and Olympic champions no best had to go abroad in adjustment to alternation in ideal conditions. On the contrary, civic teams from the four corners of the apple now came to the 'Europa-Sportregion' to adapt for their competitions. Since again annihilation has afflicted in this respect: alone afresh the Polish civic aggregation of ski jumpers and the fans' favourite Adam Malysz came to alternation on Kitzsteinhorn.

Kitzsteinhorn - accepting 3,000 metres aloft it all
Clemens M. Hutter
November 2005
ISBN 3-200-00502-5


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General Information:
With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World Cup. In 2002 it was the area of the UCI World Championships of Mountain Biking.

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