Today’s edition of The Independent (UK) features a story on Israeli snowmaking technology.
In “How Israeli scientific know-how made it snow again in autumn,” Stephen Wood writes: “On 12 November, snow will start falling at the rate of more than 40 cubic metres per hour on the mountainside at Trockener Steg, above the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt. This is not because the snow always falls on time in Switzerland; rather it is the ultimate consequence of a lack of autumn snowfall in recent years on the 3,883m Klein Matterhorn mountain – which, for marketing reasons, now prefers to be known as ‘Matterhorn Glacier Paradise’. The trouble in paradise has been a bare patch of ski slope, 700m long, between the Theodul glacier and a pair of ski lifts running up from Trockener Steg. The solution to the problem is an investment of SFr3m (£1.6m) in a revolutionary snowmaking machine developed by an Israeli company. ”
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