Views of the Lake in St. Moritz

St Moritz has been known for decades as a luxury ski resort. As with most things in Switzerland, including watches, chocolate and cheese fondues, a stay in this stunning location will, if you indulge in one, deplete your bank balance faster than a speed skier racing down the slopes in the hopes of achieving a new world record.

Even via this live feed it’s easy to see that the air in St Moritz is as pure and clean as alpine air gets. That’s not surprising as the town nestles under the formidable peak, the Piz Nair, at an altitude of one-thousand eight-hundred metres above sea level. St Moritz isn’t, and hasn’t always been about winter sports though. People have flocked there for thousands of years, and still do, to bathe in the therapeutic waters of its thermal springs. While you can’t see the steaming springs on this webcam, you can get a good gander at Lake St Moritz which can prove to be, on occasions, a lot more than just scenic.

At just over one and a half kilometres long and with a surface area of considerably less than a square kilometre, it may not be the largest lake in Switzerland, but at certain times of the year, once it’s frozen over, it definitely ranks as one of the most entertaining. View the cam when the tranquil waters have converted to solid H²O and you won’t spot novice skaters practising their backward crossovers, but something entirely different. In the winter months Lake St Moritz is used as a polo pitch, a horse racing track and for the muscle and hoof testing activity known as skijoring which is well worth revisiting the cam to see.