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This page seems fake to me. No contact informations. All "follow us pages" such as twitter, facebook etc link to the root of the page.

_Microft 4y ago
Search for Gstaad Schnee Helikopter and you will find plenty of German sources for this news. HN doesn't accept foreign language submissions, though.
- rspoerri 4y ago
  The article is okayish, even if its exaggarated and misleading. But as a swiss i would not trust this page. The article is written as if the whole sky resort looks as in the picture. While they actually tried to fix some patches of the route which had to few snow. Usually they fix it by moving snow around with a plow. Which they can not because the snow is to thin currently. Also they aborted after trying 9 times, because it was not economical. I totally agree to the absurdity to transport snow with a helicopter. However it's a big difference between what people expect when reading this article to what really happened.
  - 082349872349872 4y ago
    switzerlandtimes.ch does not show up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Switzerl... , which suggests its credibility is well under that of Blick or the train papers. furthermore, checking on nic.ch yields: Domain name switzerlandtimes.ch Registrar MARCARIA.COM INTERNATIONAL INC. 501 Silverside Road, Suite 105 US-19809 Wilmington DE Phone +1 3474711962 domains@marcaria.com First registration date 20 March 2022 which in my eyes is rather sus. ==== https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng is a nice english-language service. (unfortunately I doubt it or the NZZ english version will be carrying this story)
phlo 4y ago
SRF (reputable) and Hauptstadt (very local, focused on Bern, I'm not familiar, but doesn't look made-up) report on it as well. As absurd as it is to see (I had my first ski lessons on those very slopes), I think it checks out. https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/wegen-gruener-pisten-gstaad-laesst-schnee-per-heli-einfliegen https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/wegen-gruener-pisten-gstaad-... https://www.hauptstadt.be/a/helikopterfluege-hauptstadt-brief-118 https://www.hauptstadt.be/a/helikopterfluege-hauptstadt-brie...

_Microft 4y ago

Search for Gstaad Schnee Helikopter and you will find plenty of German sources for this news. HN doesn't accept foreign language submissions, though.

rspoerri 4y ago
The article is okayish, even if its exaggarated and misleading. But as a swiss i would not trust this page. The article is written as if the whole sky resort looks as in the picture. While they actually tried to fix some patches of the route which had to few snow. Usually they fix it by moving snow around with a plow. Which they can not because the snow is to thin currently. Also they aborted after trying 9 times, because it was not economical. I totally agree to the absurdity to transport snow with a helicopter. However it's a big difference between what people expect when reading this article to what really happened.
- 082349872349872 4y ago
  switzerlandtimes.ch does not show up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Switzerl... , which suggests its credibility is well under that of Blick or the train papers. furthermore, checking on nic.ch yields: Domain name switzerlandtimes.ch Registrar MARCARIA.COM INTERNATIONAL INC. 501 Silverside Road, Suite 105 US-19809 Wilmington DE Phone +1 3474711962 domains@marcaria.com First registration date 20 March 2022 which in my eyes is rather sus. ==== https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng is a nice english-language service. (unfortunately I doubt it or the NZZ english version will be carrying this story)

phlo 4y ago

SRF (reputable) and Hauptstadt (very local, focused on Bern, I'm not familiar, but doesn't look made-up) report on it as well. As absurd as it is to see (I had my first ski lessons on those very slopes), I think it checks out. https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/wegen-gruener-pisten-gstaad-laesst-schnee-per-heli-einfliegen https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/wegen-gruener-pisten-gstaad-... https://www.hauptstadt.be/a/helikopterfluege-hauptstadt-brief-118 https://www.hauptstadt.be/a/helikopterfluege-hauptstadt-brie...