Having a drink of beer and then whizzing down a toboggan run may seem pretty passé as an après ski activity, but how about if you take a sniff of snuff and hammer some nails in to a piece of wood between sledge descents and rounds of beer? Interested?
Well this rather bizarre activity is just what’s involved in the annual Carlsberg Toboggan Trophy which takes place in Engelberg each January.
The combined “tobogganing, drinking, sniffing and nailing race” is not yet an official Olympic discipline but is none-the-less back for the tenth time on 26th January.
“Our notorious toboggan race on TITLIS involves a fair amount of drinking, sniffing and nailing, and is certainly not for the faint-hearted or the health-conscious,” said a fairly frank statement from Engelberg.
To take part competitors need to form in to a team of four for the toboggan relay and register online their intention to race before 21st January. Participation costs 30 Swiss francs per race, which includes drinks and snacks.
On race day, which starts at 4pm on Engelberg’s Titlis mountain after 90 minutes of ‘drinks and snacks’ at the mountain restaurant, each competitor must down your Carlsberg, take a deep sniff from the snuff machine and whack nails into a log after their toboggan descent.
After the event, the celebrations continue with live music as part of an after-race party that is almost as infamous as the race itself has become.
