teaching the next generation about environmental protection. using all channels available to inspire people to take action and we're determined to build something here for the next generation gluteus fireman series of global three thousand on t.w. and on line. greetings from the german capital on a warm welcome to our latest edition and on today's so we're seeking out the far flung and forgotten corners of the continent with these top stories. ghost town explorer an italian photographer and his love of last place. snow surfers new and trending way to hit the slopes in finland.

mountain dwellers an austrian couple's lovingly restored alpine chalet. a berlin bicycle week kicks off this week in the capital to mark the arrival of spring and as the days get friendlier several hundred thousand cyclists will be hitting the roads but for professional cyclists there's no such thing as a real off season as they of course have to stay in shape year round like a german mountain biker steffi mult who has muscled her way into a decidedly male dominated field with guts and grace. a leisurely bike ride through the park is not for the likes of stephanie mart the german mountain biker prefers trails that are rated high in terms of technical difficulty and come with a guaranteed adrenaline kick the thirty two year old is one of germany's most successful female mountain bikers this extreme sport is mainly

a male domain and there are many women who can make a living from it now in biking it's nerve wracking stuff. and games in a book there's nothing i woman as a disadvantage because we reflect on things more and are a bit more careful with our bodies. if you do things with courage and energy and they tend to work out better as a man i like to do what i like and she jumps which is completely counterproductive when i approach things a bit cautiously but you can't do that with extreme things he will we have to get them full whack. and steffi marty is certainly going full throttle at this point track in munich's gazing district she started out riding b.m.x. bikes twenty years ago the mountain bike came later. five to six days a week of training is the price she pays to be a professional in her dream sport. i watch what

fascinates fascinates me about cycling is being able to exercise and be outdoors on a mountain bike you can get anywhere with a racing bike you can cover a long distances with a mountain bike you can go up steep inclines with a b.m.x. bike you can get really fast cycling has so many facets. but. the five time german women's champion has also received international prizes she won bronze in the women's four cross world championships in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen or cycling career has taken her to some of the most spectacular destinations in the world such as the hawaiian island of oahu. the great wall of china. and to utah where she soared over the grafton road part of one of the most risky mountain bike trails in the u.s. . mark knows how to ensure that she looks good too. as

nick was a bit but he's always debate about whether women's looks play a role in the sport of mountain biking unfortunately i think that's the case on the other hand it's also a lot of well it's not just about looking good and getting on the bike now and again you have to train her homework a lot on yourself. in mountain bike magazines stephanie regularly reports on her adventures for example for the magazine free ride she has written an article about her bike tour through canada. working with the media is an important part of her job. editor in chief dimitri lainer has been working with steffi mott for ten years now. steffi looks good she looks good on a bike. you wouldn't believe how much that very. reason some pro cyclists who sit strangely on their bikes stephanie is constantly working on her

posture so that she sits on her bike and the way that every amateur biker would like to take a bag. should also travels a lot internationally and really exudes a good vibe she's positive full of life just what you want in your magazine. via instagram stuff you mock regularly post photos and short film clips she wants to encourage more people to take up the sport and also likes to communicate directly with her fans. and not at the social media is really important for my work and for extreme sports men and women generally so you can show what you can do many people might miss things on the wise if you travel some. arran ride a really exciting trail we're giving courses on technique somewhere and you say it's a really good course here those things onto my magazine and people can follow them on social media with me you know that for for an. m.p. mater's hoping that more women will follow in her bike tracks and make the jump

into the professional league. and one more time we'd like to know what your favorite type of bicycle is there's still time to send us a picture of you and your two wheeler of choice and don't forget that there's a cool cycling bag up for grabs so thanks in advance for playing along best of luck to all of you well i certainly can't remember a time without his productions making waves on stage and we sang his songs from musicals like cats or jesus christ superstar until our throats were sore now the master of musicals is hitting a milestone birthday. musical maestro andrew lloyd webber turns seventy on thursday the british composer has written scores for some of the most successful musicals ever staged cats and phantom of the opera had been performed around the world and many of the songs became chart hits. lloyd webber began composing music at age six his most recent

musical adaptation school of rock debuted in twenty fifteen. his memoirs entitled unmasked came out earlier this month. an exhibition featuring sculptures by as you and me home opened on shoes day in central buttin in the spanish that c.f. sundown born in eighty ninety three the spanish artist became welsh famous for his colorful paintings. inside me home was just as passionate about sculpture in particular the night to create sculptures from objects he found while taking walks manhole show runs until september second. the first polar bear to be born in the u.k. in the quarter of a century has ventured outdoors for the first time. the couplers

morning at scotland's highland wildlife park just before christmas and mother victoria has cared for dinner again ever since the polar bear has yet to be named because its gender hasn't been established we should find out if it's male or female when health checks are made next month. for all of its incredible civilisation italy has more than fifteen hundred completely abandoned villages ghost towns that are the result of urban drain but also natural catastrophes like earthquakes or landslides well the land base for top . bruno's has frequented these forgotten places for years documenting their decay from the italian alps to the sealion hills and he took us along to a village in the apa nine mountains where villagers were forced to flee adhoc back in one thousand nine hundred sixty. by your love and abandon mountain village in the northern apennine. nature is fast encroaching on the ten houses

taking them back sixty years ago there were still more than a hundred people living here. a perfect location for milan based photographer bruno tonto tale. welcome to ghost village shrieks the sign at the entrance of town sunset tara takes pictures of a forgotten italy. he's been searching for such mysterious places since two thousand and thirteen. i. knew that a lot better that's a. little harder from the beauty and transformation of these deserted villages i want to tell something about the depopulation nobody tell you in regions that began at the beginning of the last century with put up with it without the second world war also as a result of industrialization many villages especially in the mountains were

gradually abandoned. by yola vecchio was threatened by a landslide and was therefore completely evacuated in one nine hundred sixty. the search for locations can be quite risky for. because he's also interested in what is still inside the crumbling houses remnants from the past. sometimes former residents like ninety year old rena or sicko may come here to look at their old houses and to reminisce. and we set try to over the. years the entrance to the kitchen. and stone up in a typically large tell your family lived here ten people slept in these rooms. she

hardly recognizes them today. know what i am but a real i wish i hadn't seen it again. i get all choked up. the way it is there on the. part of little by little all such villages will end up like this farm . has photographed over thirty goes to the edges for his project there is no shortage with an estimated one thousand five hundred more abandoned places in italy. in southern italy rural exodus has depopulated entire regions. abandoned villages with picturesque names like amanda. brunker leoni and fascinate the mill in these photographers. he recently met as if he spun you all over the last inhabitant of the village where she knew near naples. and appeared suddenly very for old

glory. huge prayer and the perfect image. the better enough all. the photos have been published in among other publications the italian edition of national geographic magazine. they depict in italy that is irretrievably lost. by the. time it stopped. shortly before life was being lived to the fullest and then suddenly no one was left it's almost like a modern. day. the inhabitants. were moved to a new village on the other side of the valley in one thousand nine hundred sixty the feared landslide never happened. yet no one returned to the old village green or sea says she never even considered the idea of moving back here.

soaring convenient to live. out. wadih. the number of italian ghost villages is likely to increase earthquakes are one factor. a popular hiking trail leads through a viola of a q there is some hope that enthusiastic for this way of life will consider moving here to restore at least some houses in this ghost village. i guess shep's is one of europe's most sought after concert pianists the thirty two year old russian was born in moscow and now makes her home in cologne where she regularly takes to the stage with mostly classical works but she's also a great fan of contemporary music and contrast which led her to paint remarkable home make home edge to a german techno bent. one

song two very different performers shops and scooter front man h.p. baxter. on her latest cd the classical star performer reinterprets the songs of the german techno band. i feel as if i have always known scooter scooter songs were always playing at parties or on the car radio. techno goes classical h.p. baxter and ships worked on the songs together creating cover versions that are very different from the originals but scooters have. my needs and i was able to introduce my own ideas as well and it was really nice to

be there well music was created. to play was written a long time before i was even born. this encounter between two alien worlds creates surprising results scooter's front man is certainly impressed. this play without sheet music is that normal. some amazing how do you remember it all. of them have pulled off why didn't use a coffee combination of one hundred percent scooter and one hundred percent of piano virtual so. now we're headed to finish lapland where winter still has a firm grip and the last few years have borne witness to the reemergence of powder surfing an activity that's or less a combination of snowboarding and surfing and we went to see the two guys who are making an art form.

picturesque winter landscape in finland some one hundred forty kilometers north of the arctic circle. though it's only three hundred seventy meters high climbing mt so tell you it is quite arduous. but young eric and maksim number are happy to make the effort they want to surf down the slope. unlike a normal snowboard their boards have no bindings or fasteners. powder surfing is the new thing. ten percent of the five percent going down is actually probably. twenty times good high like an adrenaline rush really i just. it's i mean it's hard work sometimes working through deep snow for. but even

i mean even that is rewarding in itself but then when you get a ride at the end of it it's kind of the cherry on the cake. you know surfboards can't really be bought anywhere in finland so there was only one logical thing for the thing to do in themselves. a designer and cabinet maker establish their own company in roman amy they bought wooden tools and got started. i think freeing you feet from the board that you're not attached to a certain position just opens up more of a. versatile of way of writing. or do you perform like a surfboard perform on water so would perform on snow similar way. but. it's important for the two fins that the whole operation. is possible only

natural materials such as birch would know synthetic fiberglass. board should be uncompromisingly environmentally friendly. we intentionally went for quite a minimal from the beginning just because. i mean snow sort of thing we live in love planned and we spend a lot of time well ninety nine percent of the time we hike. maybe one percent or more who is actual surfing you know spending so much time in it she obviously you have. a sense of what things are like he didn't make much sense to us to slap right graphics on them we might experiment with some color and graphics soon boehner with a few friends they're out surfing as often as possible all winter long. if you know somebody said oh you're going to go to.

more and more winter sports enthusiasts are asking for snow surfboards they've sold two hundred already at around four hundred euros each. this type of winter sport requires three basics good physical condition lots of time and a thing for extremely cold weather. in the forests of lapland small huts along the way off for hikers a little wrist to warm up with a hot drink after a long day. you know you should be very obviously when the season is on you have to make the most of it. because you know there's there's not going to be any snow surfing for the rest of the year so you got to catch the snow when it's it's around. surfing at minus twenty degrees celsius on snowboards without bindings a wild landscape without prepared ski runs and without ski lifts that's how young lady. from lapland like it this.

typical alpine hot summer a romantic site in the mountains of switzerland and austria for instance but there's also a lot to learn from simple mountain farm architecture as the buildings are often exemplary when it comes to space and any. the efficiency will alst tala is an austrian cabinet maker who is well known for his work with old wood he believes that heritage materials need to be preserved and he turned an old alpine hot into a monk refuge with the difference. to get up to the alpine chalet in winter snow can be more than a metre deep for months here on mt to catch back at one thousand six hundred fifty meters above sea level in the austrian state of. common to end style and heritage the four hundred year old chalet from his ancestor and restored

it painstakingly by hand according to age old tradition. didn't say enough there used to be a cabin where herdsman could cook and sleep simply as protection from wind rain and weather. the ground floor consists of a single large room dominated by the dining table and the small kitchen in a corner. plus a huge fireplace which is the heart of the chalet and keeps the entire house warm. and. was essential because where there is no warmth there is no life so this throws in the show lawyers who are always located very central and the kitchen in the living area the kind of make sure very little warmth was lost and that's why the windows were very small back then this ones if we're going to kind of things like

more. out pine mountain dwellers can teach us how to organize life in the tightest of spaces. every free surface is used for storage. that's a wooden lattice above the stove for hanging out washing and the dining table with its splayed legs office room for everyone. in the frame was built with slanted legs so people were a room for their legs when there's another if you want to go the drawers for special. blood most drawers were made of swiss pine because the essential oils in the word rebuild. or is going through. the many loving details are another reason and stan and his wife will he can feel so comfortable in this alpine chalet. the walls have decorative patterns

carved into the plaster. tarla has hung dried her everywhere. this is love in this hope this is lavender it has a calming effect if the scent is too intense for some people they can remove it but i find it very soothing me. and. when it ends tyler took over the chalet it was very run down except for the seventeenth century wooden beams little in the interior was still intact. going to hurt him then i started to restore everything. as i tried to preserve the old features and supplement them with new ones. so again. he's produced it live on stream with stones he found in the mountain pass chance. he converted the

old stable facing the chalet into a sauna. in the chalets up a story there are three simple bedrooms. but in the winter it's better only to sleep in the one that's right above the stove on the ground floor. or the bedroom for the parents with their small children was always above the kitchen. because heat rises there and that way they and their children can keep warm. or. legend and star feels best on the balcony. here he has a glorious few of the catch banks winter landscapes. fresh air water and trees are really important to me boy me provide grounding for me i'm going home air that's life for me i calm down and i'm at peace

this is. the alpine chalet on the catch back up place where you can live comfortably even in this a varistor one times far from civilization in complete harmony with nature. a place with space to dream and all that know it's time for me to sign off so until next time i was spending just. next time on your own max foster. her cap known as the cigar is the latest. favorite fashionistas after model sported the more new car lagerfeld recently regular show. originally designed for truckers cigarettes are still made by hand in

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