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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Helen Coffey

Swapping plane for train and tartiflette for vegan raclette on the ‘world’s most sustainable ski trip’

Ed Hopkins

Travel Positive is a new column where we celebrate the exciting sustainability wins in the travel industry that are giving us hope for the future.

Sitting on a sun-drenched terrace with a local beer in hand and a raclette dish before me, gazing across the majesty of the Valais and the snow-smothered Swiss Alps, I feel the same bone-deep sense of contentment I always do in the mountains. It’s why I keep coming back, year after year, to don uncomfortable boots, clip them into planks of wood, and hurl myself downhill at speeds I pray to God my mother never finds out about.

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