Massive new ski area planned for Swiss Alps
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Two large Swiss ski areas will be joined together with a network of 18 new lifts to create one of the biggest ski regions in the Alps if recently announced plans by an Egyptian billionaire come to fruition. The billionaire, Samih Sawiris, is already mid-way through a project to add half-a-dozen luxury hotels as well as lots of other new property to the resort of Andermatt, but he now wants to make staying in them when they start to open in 2013/14 by joining the skiing at Andermatt to that at nearby Sedrun with the new lifts, creating the second biggest ski area in Switzerland in the process. The total piste kilometres of the two areas is already 250km even before new pistes are added to connect them.