Arts Festivals
March 2015Altitude Festival
Altitude Festival features stand-up comedy, live music, international DJs, competitions and plenty more. The backdrop to the festival will be the beautiful snow-capped Alpine mountains, restaurants, hotels and spas, of Mayrhofen, Austria which offers access to the entire Zillertal super ski area with 639km of piste and 167 lifts and gondolas.
The festival offers powder skiing and boarding by day in and entertainment by night with comedy and the cream of up-and-coming stand ups, Altitude is the first chance to check out brand new material from some of the best comedians around before they take it on to the Edinburgh Festival.
The festival caters for everyone's tastes. There are shows for children and crèche facilities during the day and evening (including the Comedy Club 4 Kids), bars and restaurants high above the clouds, an empty 15th century spa, secret backcountry bash's and an igloo party.
Altitude's facilities include 200 year old traditionally-built wooden barns and a nightclub made entirely from snow! With 625 KM's of pistes a 3286m glacier AND an award-winning terrain park.
Mayrhofen sits at 630m, with a ski lift that going up to 1800m in 12 minutes where there's plenty of deep snow. The Tux Glacier within easy reach (it has snow 365 days a year), and an army of snow cannons. The Altitude Super Ski Pass offers amazing value, allowing access to the entire Zillertal Super Ski Area - the Glacier, the Vans Penken Park.
