Overview
Saas-Fee, a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border, is known for its proximity to mountains more than 4,000m above sea level, or 4-thousand.
Description
It's a gateway to more than 100km of pistes for skiing and snowboarding, plus sledging and toboggan runs. The Mittelallalin Ice Pavilion is a frozen grotto carved into the Fee Glacier. In the summer, the surrounding area draws hikers and rock climbers. Hemmed in by a magnificent amphitheatre of 13 implacable peaks over 4000m and backed by the threatening tongues of nine glaciers, the village of Saas-Fee looks somewhat tiny in the revealing light of summer. Until 1951 only a mule trail from Saas Grund in the valley below led to this isolated outpost and locals scraped a living from farming.