Cresta Run Cresta Run The Cresta Run is a natural ice skeleton racing toboggan track in eastern Switzerland. Located in the winter sports town of St. Moritz, the run is one of the few in the world dedicated entirely to skeleton. It was built in 1884 near the hamlet of Cresta in the municipality of Celerina/Schlarigna by the Outdoor Amusement Committee of the Kulm Hotel and the people of St. Moritz. The committee members were Major William Henry Bulpett (eventual founder of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC)), George Robertson, Charles Digby Jones (Robertson and Digby Jones planned the proposed course), C.
St. Moritz Ice Rink the world's largest dance halls, designed by architects Beaver & Purnell. It was the venue for the first all-Australian dance championship, and featured some of the best dance bands of Australia and America, and closed during the great depression. In 1933, the building became a film studio, Efftee Studios, for Frank W. Thring, who made some half-dozen movies in the cavernous building before abandoning the project in 1937. In 1939, businessman Henry Hans "Harry" Kleiner and his wife transformed the "Wattle Path" to an ice rink, and the St. Moritz was born. The grand opening of the St. Moritz Ice-skating