Verbier

Overview of Verbier Ski Resort

Verbier is one the world’s best known and most fashionable ski resorts. Famous for its extreme terrain, but also offering ski runs suitable for all. Verbier is an attractive, traditional resort of chalet-style buildings located on what is popularly described as a ‘sunny balcony’ above the valley below. 

Like other famous resorts, Verbier has a reputation for attracting celebrity guests and this attraction to the well-heeled means Verbier has a reputation for luxury living, with some designer shops, cocktail bars and many gourmet restaurants.

Verbier is located at one end of the giant 4 Valleys ski area, a linked network of nearly 90 lifts connecting the ski runs above more than half-a-dozen ski villages.

The ski area has nearly 2,200 vertical metres between the highest lifts up on the Mont Fort glacier, and the lowest runs. In exceptionally snowy winters, some of the world’s longest off-piste vertical descents of nearly 2,500 vertical metres are possible down to the valley floor below the village. A quarter of the domain's runs are above Verbier itself, the largest single sector in the region.