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The Andes and the Alps on a single rope team
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Sep 25, 2008
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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filed under:
education, training, work,
society, culture,
summer sports,
sport
This year mountain guides from Peru are carrying out part of their training in the Alps at the invitation of their Swiss counterparts. Already back in the early 1980s, the Swiss Mountain Guide Association initiated a professional mountain guide training course in Peru.
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2018 Olympics - How green are France's candidatures?
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by
zopemaster
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published
Jan 15, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:19 AM
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filed under:
sporting events,
sport,
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport,
sustainable development
Four French towns are bidding to stage the 2018 Winter Olympics:
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French municipality against heli-skiing
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zopemaster
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published
Jan 29, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:19 AM
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helicopter tourism,
sport,
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport
In mid-November 2008 the municipal council of Pralognan la Vanoise/F voted unanimously to put a stop to tourist helicopter traffic on its municipal territory in the Chavière/F valley.
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First carbon-footprint calculation for a ski school
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zopemaster
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published
Jun 25, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport,
Grey Energy,
passenger transport,
transalpine transport
The carbon footprint of a ski school in France has been measured for the first time.
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Why do you go hiking?
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zopemaster
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published
Jul 30, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
summer sports,
sport,
leisure,
society, culture
Together with the French Ramblers' Association and the French Alpine Club, the French association "Grande Traversée des Alpes" are trying to find the answer to the simple question, why do tourists go hiking on mountain and woodland paths or through dunes and deserts?
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Mountain hike for climate protection
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zopemaster
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published
Aug 27, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
alpinism,
sport,
glaciers,
geomorphology
On 15 August 2009, some seventy hikers went up to the Goldbergkees glacier on the Hoher Sonnblick in Salzburg/A to draw attention to the impacts of global climate change.
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Hiking right across the Alps
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zopemaster
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published
Jan 12, 2010
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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alpinism,
sport
The recently published book Via Alpina - 2500 kilometres from one coast to another (Via Alpina - 2'500 kilomètres d'une mer à l'autre) recounts the adventure of crossing the entire Alpine range. In 2007 Vincent Tornay followed the Via Alpina Red Trail for a total of 119 days in search of the people and landscapes that make up the Alps of today. He covered 2500 km and 124,000 metres of difference in altitude as he hiked through the eight Alpine states, from the Adriatic coastline to Monaco.
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Turin/I: Olympic sports facilities left to waste away
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zopemaster
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published
Jan 12, 2010
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport
Since the close of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin many of the sports facilities and installations have been left abandoned. The five ski jumps in Pragelato, for example, for which the building costs exceeded 34 million Euros, are now closed off and unused.
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Low-carbon travel from the UK to the ski slopes
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by
zopemaster
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published
Jan 12, 2010
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport
Taking the train from London to go skiing in Sestriere/I sounds like a nightmare scenario. But, as a new specialist website proves, it's not. For a number of weeks now, avid skiers can go to www.snowcarbon.co.uk/ (en) to find the most convenient train journeys to take them from London/UK to the Alps or the Pyrenees to go skiing.
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Uphill with solar energy
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by
zopemaster
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published
Apr 13, 2010
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
winter sports, skiing areas,
sport,
solar energy,
renewable energy
The village of Tenna in the Safien valley of the Swiss canton Graubünden is working hard on a world premiere. The Skilift Tenna cooperative has decided to replace an ancient ski lift by the first solar-powered ski lift ever.
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