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| I think all Brits should be exempt as auslanders anyway as far as the piste quota is concerned.
As far as recreational skiing in Swizerland is concerned (and possibly all downhill skiing as a tourist activity) the infrastructure only was started in the 1910s because of the Brits coming over and taking it up.
I read somewhere that it all started in Murren (even before Sir Arnold Lunn). | |
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I think it is Mürren only, but you are correct, Brits are involved in the start of alpine winter tourism
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St. Moritz is first mentioned around 1137-39 as
ad sanctum Mauricium.
[1] The town was named after
Saint Maurice, a
Coptic Orthodox and
Roman Catholic saint.
Although it received some visitors during the summer, the origins of the winter resort only date back to September 1864, when St. Moritz hotel pioneer,
Johannes Badrutt, made a wager with four British summer guests: that they should return in winter and if it was not to their liking, he would pay for the cost of their journey from London and back. If they found St. Moritz attractive in winter, he would invite them to stay as his guests for as long as they wished.
[2] This marked not only the start of winter tourism in St. Moritz but the start of winter tourism in the whole of the Alps."
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Moritz
Doc.