Best of the Alps - Top 11 Alpine Ski Resorts The Best of the Alps are a collection of 11 classic Alpine mountain resorts, alpine villages where skiing was born and where skiing can be experienced and enjoyed in its purest form, with endless powder slopes and pistes, from November to April every year. The members of the Best of the Alps include French resort Chamonix Mont-Blanc, which hosted the first Winter Olympic games way back in 1924. Chamonix is located at the foot of Mont-Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps and the second highest in Europe at 4,810 m. France is also home to Megeve. Italy is represented in the Best of the Alps by Cortina D`Ampezzo, which was featured in the second season of the Amazing Race. Switzerland is represented by Davos Tourismus, the very fashionable St.Moritz and honeymoonable Zermatt, which features a pollution-free pedestrian only town centre, and Grindelwald. Germany's sole contribution to the Best of the Alps is Garmisch-Partenkichen, 2 hours drive away from Munich and perhaps a little less spectacular and scenic than the rest of the pack, but nevertheless a favourite of the Teutonics. Austria boasts the majority of the pack, with scenic resort of Seefeld, which lies by the lake and is possibly even more beautiful in summer, Kitzbuhel, Lech Zurs, where the rich fashionable sophisticates are seen every ski season and St. Anton am Arlberg. The Arlberg region in the southwest of Austria alone boasts such resorts as St. Anton, St. Christoph, Stuben, Lech and Zurs. The resorts all boast an interconnected ski-lift system and visitors from each resort will, with a valid ski pass, be able to experience the slopes from the other resorts. The slopes of Lech are rather more gentle and forgiving, more sunny even in winter with a sparkling stream passing through the centre of the village. For an avid skiier, a honeymoon in St. Anton, staying at the fashionable Raffl's St. Antoner Hof Hotel would be memorable indeed.