The company's purpose is to engage in any activity related to winter and summer tourism, in particular the teaching of all types of sports, as well as any mountain guide activity, in Switzerland and abroad. The company may also engage in any other activity that has a direct or indirect connection with these purposes; it may in particular create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts intended to develop and expand its purpose or related thereto directly or indirectly.