Luxury escorts in Andermatt

Andermatt has been remade inside a decade, and the result is unlike anywhere else in the Alps: a granite village at the meeting of four passes, anchored by the Chedi's cedar-and-stone calm, with the Gemsstock's freeride terrain above and an eighteen-hole championship course laid along the valley floor. It draws guests who want the mountain without the parade — the ones who chose against the louder resorts on purpose.

Our engagements here reflect that choice. The Chedi anchors most of them: its Japanese restaurant and cigar lounge make a complete evening without leaving the building, which in January has its own appeal. Winter days are for skiers who take the mountain seriously — the Gemsstock is not a beginner's hill — and our companions who come to Andermatt are matched to that. Summer is quieter and greener: golf mornings, pass drives over the Furka and Oberalp, dinner as the valley cools. The village is ninety minutes from Zurich, which makes a two-day engagement easy to build around a working week.