Flights are available all year round, and encompass the whole Alpine landscape from Mont-Blanc to the Eiger, taking in the Grand-Combin, the Matterhorn and the Jura, as well as the regions around Lake Geneva and the canton of Fribourg.

With 800 metres of steel cable and up to 50 metres high, ziplining provides an exciting journey through stunning winter scenery, and comes to an end thanks to a giant spring device.

Located in the gardens of the hotel, right next to Lake Zurich, the rink is open from early November until early February. After you are finished on the ice, you can warm up at the mulled wine stand.

The Barry Fondation (owner of the 300-year-old breeding kennel from the Great Saint Bernard Pass Hospice – the Holy Order of the Great Saint Bernard Monastery) organises walks accompanied by Saint Bernard dogs in the Valais mountain village of Champex-Lac. You walk the dog, and little people can take a sled ride pulled by them.

Leaving from the pretty village of Lauenen, the tour takes roughly one hour and fifteen minutes, gliding through the pristine Rohr nature conservation area to Lake Lauenen and then back again. Each sleigh takes up to six months to make by master craftsmen Ernst and Ueli Reichenbach; sheepskin rugs keep you cosy on route.

The museum is located in the basement of the old English church in the heart of the village. It features exhibits relating to the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, including a faithful reconstruction of the living room at 221B Baker Street.

Learn how to handle a team of sled dogs, before experiencing the pure exhilaration of slicing through the snow behind these mighty malumuts. Also try Huskystuff in Alt St. Johann or a Husky Lodge near Lucerne.

After a leisurely post-bus ride through the beautiful Rosenlaui Valley, jump aboard a toboggan and start your rather more adrenalin-packed descent at the foot of the mighty Wetterhorn. The Eiger Run, which starts at Alpiglen and ends at Brandbegg, is also a great option. Many toboggan runs are lit up at night, adding a new element of loveliness.

As the name implies, fatbikes have extra-wide tyres that are designed specifically for riding in the snow and on ice. Currently taking the country by storm, there are lots of places you can indulge, including Andermatt, Valais and Gstaad, where the third annual Snow Bike Festival will take place on 17-22 January next year.

Not for the faint-hearted, the bridge is just one metre wide, 100 metres long and suspended by steel cables. It even sways! This isn’t for anyone with a fear of heights!

With specially trained mountain guides who will instruct you in the safe use of ropes, ice axes and crampons. There’s no need to be a bodybuilder: routes of differing grades will be set up on ice walls so everyone, big and small, can try it out. After the effort of going up, rappelling down the deep crevasses is pure fun, and all gear is provided.

You can go snow tubing at Titlis Glacier Park, which has groomed runs that have you spinning in circles before coming to a bumpy but safe stop.

Where game warden Jon Gross will take you hiking through the landscape to observe the habits of numerous animals that are found there.

From three-hour night sky observations to a seven-day New Year’s Stargazing in the Alps program of gazing and photography throughout the long clear Alpine nights.

Each one has a pellet-burning stove and all the comforts of home, with breakfast served in the central pod-house, and endless nature just beyond each pod’s adjoining deck.

At the premier event on the Swiss cricket calendar (who knew there was one?).