Engelberg to stage the world's longest downhill torch run

The Titlis Rotair company at Engelberg in Switzerland will sponsor the world’s longest downhill run by torchlight this winter. The route covers 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) over 2,000 vertical metres from the top of Mount Titlis down to Engelberg. In recent years, Titlis-Rotair Cableway has invested 3.5 million SFr (2.5 million Euro) in snow-making machines on this route and neighbouring runs so that 41km of slopes are now covered by snow cannons (33km) or on the Titlis glacier (8km).

Switzerland’s Engelberg has expanded the capacity on the Trübsee-Hopper quad chairlift by 30% to 1,500 people per hour. The lift brings skiers and boarders up to the Jochpass area and the slopes that will lead you from the top directly down to Engelberg.