To provide a rough basis for comparison, here are details on Alpine tours run by three companies.
For a forthcoming exhibition on Ruskin and Turner, Emma Stibbon was commissioned to go to Chamonix and record the glaciers around Mont Blanc where, in the early 1800s, Turner painted sublime watercolours that inspired Ruskin to embark on his Alpine tours decades later, photographing and drawing awe-inspiring glaciers such as the Mer de Glace.
The two sit 2-3 in the overall standings heading into this weekend's races in Aspen, the only United States stop on the women's Alpine tour.
Nearest airports are Innsbruck and Venice Treviso, or the nearest train station is Bolzano, just over an hour away The Tour de Monte Rosa, on the border between Switzerland and Italy, is one of the most epic Alpine hiking tours, less famous than the Tour du Mont Blanc, so much less busy, but with staggering scenery.
By the end of it, Alpine package tours were being sold by the thousands by Thomas Cook and his competitors.
Wow Factor An Alpine Helicopters tour of the Three Sisters Peaks that takes you over Goat Range, the Spray Valley Lakes and the Bow River.
It was well on its way to becoming a ski resort, thanks in large part to Lunn's father, Henry, who pioneered the Alpine package tour in the Victorian era.
The plane was on an Alpine sightseeing tour from Locarno, in the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland, to Dübendorf, an airport near Zurich, when it crashed into the mountainside near the ski resort of Flims, in eastern Switzerland.
Or when the season is right, as it was recently, to blaze 12 miles of snowmobile track in the dark, to fire up the wood stove, to make cherry-glazed pork loin and purple mashed potatoes and, in the morning, to get in a good Alpine ski tour.
The My Way Alpine Europe tour I'm leading continues to brave new heights.
Throughout his time in a nude community in France, on a nude Alpine walking tour and on a nude cruise, he remained — as his subtitle proclaims — a reluctant nudist.
