The Cresta Run celebrates its 125th anniversary this winter. The famous toboggan run was first built by visiting British tourists in the mid-1880s, by experimenting with water and snow, in the world’s first winter sports holiday resort, several decades before downhill skiing took off as a winter sport.

Still rebuilt by hand each winter it is one of the world’s largest ice sculptures and is on a smaller scale, in terms of the size of the sides and width of the course.

The Cresta Run remains privately-operated by the British St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, which is based in the original St Moritz luxury hotel, The Kulm. The Club still only allows men to descend the run, except on the last day of its operation each winter, and the high speed run on a small metal sled is not for the faint-hearted. The ‘Cresta kiss’ impact injury is a common occurrence.

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