Skiing The Psychological Alps

Skiing the Psychological AlpsIt is an easy 15 hours of mountain driving from Salzburg's Grosses Festspielhaus (altitude 1350 feet), where Bach's Christmas Oratorio is swelling toward intermission, to St. Niklaus, Switzerland, where the skier boards a train that climbs toward Zermatt, where he carries his skis a mile and a quarter, ascends by a series of three cable cars to the Matterhorn's Theodul glacier and arrives at the Trockener Steg shelter (altitude 10,000 feet). There is a nice balance i...