{"id":112813,"date":"2026-08-07T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/112813\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:07:21","slug":"second-swiss-resort-suspends-summer-skiing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/112813\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Swiss resort suspends summer skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786115240_716_18e53bc75b5ee1c537fa4ceaec00791618b7aa03-91862967.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Following Zermatt, Saas-Fee has also suspended summer skiing\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Following Zermatt, Saas-Fee has also suspended summer skiing            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Summer skiing in the Swiss Saas-Fee resort is to be suspended from next week following a similar decision in Zermatt.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 7, 2026 &#8211; 16:05\n<\/p>\n<p>At the end of July, canton Valais resport Zermatt suspended operations due to melting glaciers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/glaciers-permafrost\/the-international-consequences-of-a-glacier-free-switzerland\/89113521\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ Global consequences of a glacier-free Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saastal Bergbahnen will temporarily suspend its summer ski lift operations from August 10, as stated on its website. <\/p>\n<p>Persistently high temperatures have resulted changes to snow and glacier conditions. Slopes and infrastructure can no longer be operated safely, the company explains.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of July, due to the heatwave, Zermatt had also suspended summer skiing on the Valais side of the Matterhorn. <\/p>\n<p>However, some training runs remained accessible to the Swiss-Ski teams.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786115241_542_zermattski.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Ski lifts and other apparatus are losing stability on the glacier\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Glaciers &amp; permafrost\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Summer skiing \u2018doomed\u2019 on Swiss Zermatt glacier    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Aug 5, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Skiing restricted to national but in very poor conditions.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/glaciers-permafrost\/summer-skiing-doomed-on-swiss-zermatt-glacier\/91848430\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Summer skiing \u2018doomed\u2019 on Swiss Zermatt glacier<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from Italian, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Zermatt, Saas-Fee has also suspended summer skiing Keystone-SDA Summer skiing in the Swiss Saas-Fee resort is to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,454,312,457,100,103,82,41,17],"class_list":["post-112813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-climate-adaptation","tag-beat-various","tag-environment","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sport","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117054855559708078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}