Was wäre wenn wir das Engadin neu erfinden würden? Wenn wir uns überlegen würden, wie wir das gemeinsam tun könnten? Und wir einen konstruktiven Dialog führen würden, was es braucht, damit wir alle an einem Strick ziehen?

Sein Name ist Oliver Baer, er ist 29 jung und kommt aus Aarbon. Oliver bekam mit 16 Jahren seine erste Kamera von seiner Mutter. Aufgrund seiner Wissensneugier und seiner autodidaktischen Fähigkeiten, war das Erlerne dieser Kunst für ihn unproblematisch. Obwohl Bär sehr intuitiv fotografiert, gelingen ihm immer wider Meisterwerke der besonderen Art. Eine seiner Spezialitäten ist sicherlich das Portraitieren von Personen. So stand beispielsweise schon Stefanie Heizmann, Marc Sway oder das in den Medien kontrovers diskutierte Fitnessmodell Anja Zeidler vor seiner Linse.

An den WM habe ich ihn den getroffen, Gerhard Walter, den neuen CEO der Tourismus-Organisation. Er hat mir einiges verraten über sich.

How will the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships St. Moritz 2017 go down in history? As one that nearly could have ended in disaster, as a military display plane for once did fly too low, as one that saw our neighbors from Team Austria flying high? Let’s say it was a big party that brought together people from across the world in a peaceful manner and everybody got away with a slap on the wrist.

The medals are awarded in a sea of red and white, as Austria and Switzerland seem to ski in a league of their own. For most of the other 75 nations it’s not the winning but the taking part that counts. They can showcase themselves instead in shops and restaurants all over the village thanks to a local initiative called the Nations-Walk – colorful encounters between locals and guests only steps away from the dichromatic main stage.

After Austria dominated on the slopes, the Romansh were called for to save the day for Switzerland on the central stage in Kulm Park. Rock music and hip-hop: two solid acts by Prefix and Liricas Analas stood up successfully to adversities of various kinds such as, again, canned Austrian après-ski sound.

As the championships are drawing to a close, one question gains more and more urgency: what will become of Edy the giant, the wooden skier who has been guarding so stoically the whole event? Jon the blogger suggests: turn him into a museum of local winter sports history. Imagine the top-of-the-world view from out of one of his eyes!