Record temperatures have again caused problems for ski resorts this winter. An EU project is now investigating how lift operators can best respond to climate change. In Sankt Corona am Wechsel in Austria, diggers are already removing the remaining snow from ski slopes...for summer sports enthusiasts.
One solution for the snow problem is summer sports. "The ski season is over earlier than expected. That's why our trail construction team is already on the slopes shovelling out the trails so that we can start mountain biking" says Karl Morgenbesser, the lift operator at Sankt Corona am Wechsel.
The small ski resort now generates more money from summer sports than from winter sports.
