The Lauberhorn is the longest downhill course on the World Cup circuit — about 4.4 kilometres, two and a half minutes of racing, against the north faces of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Its features have names: the Hundschopf jump, the Canadian Corner, the Wasserstation, the railway underpass the course runs through.
It has been raced since 1930 and the crowd on the finish slope is among the largest in ski racing.
The organising committee publishes spectator figures per edition; we have not collected a dated one.
Wengen has no cars. Everything and everyone arrives by the rack railway from Lauterbrunnen, which on race Saturday is the constraint on the whole event; the village's hotel beds are committed a year ahead.
PlanningA January weekend fixed by the FIS calendar; Wengen is car-free and reached only by rack railway.