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Zermatt Beginner Skiing

Although beginners get to experience the magnificent mountain atmosphere, they have to get up there - reaching the glaciers is a chore.
 

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Beginners are the only losers in Zermatt, though even that's merely in relative terms: there are good slopes on which to learn, including long gentle runs on the glaciers, so snow is never a problem. But novices and timid intermediates will miss out on a range of ski experiences that require sufficient skills to travel the slopes efficiently. And though they will still get to experience the magnificent mountain atmosphere, they have to get up there – reaching the glaciers by a series of busy cable cars, for instance, is a chore which won’t be appreciated without the reward of a huge descent.

Logically, complete beginners will choose to go to another resort, though novices within a mixed ability group will be well enough served as long as they accept that there will be whole swathes of the resort that they won’t visit. Sunnegga, Blauherd and Trockener Steg are the main ski school meeting points and, along with Gornergrat, are where blue slopes can be found.

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