Did you know that ...?

...at the Hintertux glacier

• there is skiing and snowboarding fun on 365 days of the year
• 36,800 persons per hour can be transported 
• there is a piste area of 270ha at your disposal 
• lifts run in parallel so that skiing operations can be also maintained during periods of maintenance 
• Gletscherbus 3 is the highest-lying bicable continuous gondola lift in the world 
• visitors from around 49 nations ski and snowboard here
• about 130 employees are deployed for you during the winter 
• there are 14 piste preparation machines in operation daily in order to perfectly prepare up to 86km of pistes 
• the artificial snow on the Hintertux glacier is prepared from air and water and nothing else 
• that glacial ice moves between 0 and 40m every year and consequently support struts that stand on glacial ice have to be moved regularly.

.... in Austria

• skiing is 3 x safer than playing football
• cable cars are the most safe form of public transport. In the winter 2001/2002 and summer 02, the probability of a holiday visitor suffering an accident on a cable car or ski lift was 0.00006 %.
• all cable cars transport an average of 600 million persons in a year
• the cable car sector invests a total of 16 million Euro in the safety of winter sports participants on the piste (initial and continued training of employees, piste support, rescue sleds, marking signs, avalanche protection, medical care,..) 
• a golfer pays up to € 75.00 for the use of an 18-hole course, whereas as a one-day ski pass on the Hintertux glacier only amounts to € 35.00 and guarantees a perfect winter sports experience.