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tv   Check-in  Deutsche Welle  January 14, 2023 8:30am-9:01am CET

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the ah, i'm almost there. all that's left is this mountain path. this time i'm going to be pretty high up in the anger the in that's a valley in the swiss alps and it's my very 1st time winter always arrives a little earlier in the year here. the mountains in the anger the are already covered with snow. the lakes located about 800100 meters above sea level, have not yet frozen over me. i my destination is st more. it's a place that stands for winter tourism like no other it's pretty cold up here in
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the entity and in order to warm up every now and then i have planned some activities. all variations of winter sports on the slopes, on the cross country ski run and on a bike. i also want to find out how and why tourists have discovered the good dean in switzerland. i even german philosopher if we believe nature love to get away from it all in the, in getting ah times because we are in switzerland. we just have to show you one of its most famous landmarks, the mother on and our sample. some local specialties like anger, the not kick and cheese fondue. ah, ah, saint lawrence used to be a simple firming village, but today you see massive hotels and shop windows with luxury items. it is still
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pretty quiet before the destinations peak season. tour guide the place to go explained to me that winter tourism was the result of a bet between the hotel owner, 100 spotwood and a group of 4 summer travelers from england. and then he made a bed with the english guest. he said, come to saint moritz in the winter, and if you don't like it, i'll be for your trip from london to saint moritz and back. and if you like it, you can stay at my hotel for free as long as you want the bit. yes, i had to pay the side as a result, saint moritz became a popular travel destination in winter time. 25 luxury hotels are spread across the alpine resort, which is home to about 5000 resident movie shows me one of the oldest preserved houses. a typical anger, the farm house from 1658 or don i think i'd like to blame the architecture
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a bit more about here. the traditional houses were built with really thick walls to code it. and you can see that the window slightly. why. i mean to keep the warmth inside and black and yet still allow sufficient daylight in and then we have individual windows that have rates in front of them before they approach that. the saracens were here and if you go to an arab country like morocco or tenicia today, you'll see philip re window grapes like this everywhere. oh, by the way, there is also a leaning tower in saint moritz, the remnant of the st. maricia church fence on an unstable slope and has to be secured again and again. the ah saint moritz consists of 2
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districts. and escalator takes you comfortably from xact, mill, heat stove, or village, down to jacksonville, heat spot or spot. on the walls, you can see photos with motifs from winter sports history. international competitions take place in the swiss mountain town regularly. ah, even the saint north lake is used in winter for a rather unusual event. a portable tournament
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and this leg is guaranteed to be frozen over every year so that horses can walk on it. yeah, yeah, this in december we need about a rank of minus 30 degree temperatures every night. ideally without any wind, and then it freezes over nicely. it'll be covered in about a half meter to one meter of snow. the ice isn't too slippery since there snow on top of it so far. it's always been cold enough. like to day it's quite pressure. your eyes are tearing up from the cold. oh, good. well, if thank you very much for taking the time to day and also my pleasure. come back any time. well, i noticed st morris is a pretty cold place in winter, so exercise is required. and right now i'm going cross country ski ish name did us . there's the slightest look of it 1st,
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i'm going to take your polls away so we can start off together. tonin on here in switzerland. we say that everyone always has a chocolate foot. they might one that's a bit better than the other. well, which is your so it is is done shy to say the right one, that is to say the right one, and then we'll put on your left ski or. okay, so that is now your more or less fully attached it or that the heal remains free. in cross country skiing, but i am long low. oh boy, you're full with the extended legs, sir, or do a good rests right side, her bend your knee and ankle organ and then let yourself fall forwards like a board on to the left ski and g. r. a left is the hardest law again, right, up and down on the right. look ahead,
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a 4 and let yourself fall forward of all and loss. very good. that's cavity. now i'll give you these 2 rings to hold, and you'll keep looking ahead, horner. and then when the left, he moves forward on the right hand, comes up on top of that. so can you take really small steps at for i none. should ethan level been lifted and diverse her firmly. ah ah ah ma ha mon if you for me, i don't understand why this is so difficult of all i have to do is stand my lame a bonfire. excuse me. oh job, this must look totally stupid. they're very nice. with
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after i finally get going, i can't help but challenge hines. a look through how bout a little race ethnic i get with the trail also serves as a training route for a young athletes. this is so it filthy. i'm sweating so much that my clothes are soaked
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but once you get the hang of it, it's a ton of fun gliding over the snow, especially with a backdrop like this. ah ah, i feel like both old later i'll hit the downhill slopes, but 1st it's time for a break and some refreshments. the anger dean is also renowned for its sweet treats . the master confectioners, from the anger dean, have made a name for themselves as far as venice. i try a piece of the famous anger, the nut cake. it's made out of short crust pastry and filled with roughly chopped caramel lies. walnuts.
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i it's very tasty in the perfect way to refuel. for the oh. all right, before i go ski, let me show you a swiss national symbol. the matter on one of the most famous mountains in the world i. 6 with its striking summits, the matter horn has long been a symbol of switzerland and the power of nature in previously considered unconquerable due to its menacing heights and dangerous slopes. the mountain has
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claimed the lives of many climbers. the 1st, the sense was finally made an 18. 65 that history is documented here at the much horn museum in zermatt. at the foot of the mountain museum director eddie schmid tells her the climb of match. a horn pioneer edward whimper, entered in disaster. when for members of his team, including mountaineer, michel croz fell to their debts the emperor walter, onboarding when fur was determined to be the 1st to reach the top from side lot. he detached himself from the route and arrived 1st as while fisher. i was certainly a triumphant mountaineering career. it bandaged, i get it, but during the the senate upstate, these 7 heroes became for tragic heroes, but argues she held because you might sam store to days the father occurred in that split 2nd. instantly catapulted on these in the me heroes form held dead. men soon
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. porton him that was incredibly bitter and was sodden on his lot. on gulping, bitter and possibly negligent too, since the ambitious whimper was alleged. to have cut the rope that would have secured michelle cross them on it's, i'm putting one on one together. you could deduce that whimper, color routine to get past crooked or one girl for bite to call that he never admitted it. it had this need, so gave fact triumphant tragedy was later portrayed in several films, including the mountain calls, which can also be seen at the museum. ah, hey, along with st words, zer mats is among switzerland's most famous vacation destinations in winter time. even if it's striking mountain peak isn't always visible, but serena fish for tail if autumn it has a very special shape under concord,
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if as a famous french mountain climber, one said stuart, if a child had to draw a mountain and it would probably wind up resembling the matter horn, that that's washing. so sidney, that's not the road. sometimes it's shrouded in snow. with the times it's visible from miles away. but to matter horns mystique draws visitors in time and time again. ah, to now my sites are set high to the oven. it's a is the name of a ski area near st morris. with what a view, man, lean us, your mountains, hunger. that's then we're going to now altitude of almost 3000 meters. and because
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i don't have a lot of experience lenise my ski instructor, it should help me on the slopes. i'm helping climb. we're definitely looking forward to today. i've been skiing twice before in my life, but i'm anything but a professional. so if you show me some tricks, i'd be very grateful and then there's a few been twice. the 3rd time's the charm and the weather's birth. it wasn't a bad thought. i don't better. i want to take it slow. at 1st. the snow plow technique will check and up again.
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lena, this technique looks a bit more elegant. lucas shower her, faked where's the applause? lina, c noise. now here comes the crowd called 1st when it gets a little steeper, i have to put in a lot of effort and i'm glad when i make it down safely. with pedal lenise, what do you say? what grade would you give me for today? to me again for the northern talk to them, i think and thought for to dia, give you a b, you did very well, and that was a tough star. i really, i'm really good how to start. thank you. if you are a benevolent teacher, i've,
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i've that resume until next time when i'm not till next time. ah, i found this exhausting while the others make it look so easy. to me as a beginner fear and fun is pretty close to each other. but this is what makes it challenging. anyway, i won't be the king of the loveday. ah, you cannot only go skiing here. you also have a great view. ah ah
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ah ah ah ah, ah ah, my next stop takes me away from the slopes to a neighboring town of the more cosmic politan saint moritz. everything here is a bit more rustic. ah, it's pretty deserted here. it's got the old place to myself. ah,
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this is maria and the neighboring lake foods have fascinated travelers. over decades, the german philosopher really meet you, for example, was often here this is the police were the same as need. she used to walk around here. you could let his thoughts run free. ah, really nature came to this navea regularly in the 18 eighty's, and this is where he stayed. the house was converted and opened as
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a museum in 1960 unlike me however, meach it was only here in summer. oh, tough. i'm busy. this is the room he actually stated, i'm allowed in. yup. oh stop by yes, we'll make an exception for you. as you can see, it's quite a simple room and i'm for home. but over there this was niches you. what we see out there is what he saw then at almost been up. yeah. i thought when his yes on that house was already there, you know and, and there was a path up into the woods on, on each a love to taking walks. and that's evident. it through as works. when does in thus spoke zarathustra. there is this beautiful notion directly linking physical movement with spiritual freedom and guys zarathustra once said, have been, i learned to walk in my since then, have i let myself run in? so let's go run and be free. the flow from the, from the pilot,
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ah, leaches salt and found peace and relaxation in the anger, dean. the mountain air was also good for his ailing health. ah, but above all, he probably appreciated the solitude after his time as a student in bun or as a professor and bother vibe, isn't it actually typical of nature to i wasn't really a people personally when he had few close friends. but when he went to bon, he tried to make some of the files for peer. incidentally, he gave up his prussian citizenship and used a swiss passport to travel. after talking $79.00, he came to anchor dean for the 1st time to st. more its cigar, and was enraptured to buy the air for the landscape and the tensions and the landscape. these contradictions attracted him home. i'm high valley that leads to
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a mountain pass and it than the glaciers, and opening to the south of north. from suton, him in $1889.00 nita suffered a nervous breakdown on a trip to italy. he was brought to germany by his sister and never came back to the anger dean. the router wouldn't each feel that we're here talking about him with everything displayed this way. so yeah, i saw where ever i think he would enjoy the fact that people had finally taken note of him because that wasn't the case during his lifetime, not after. with the spokes are through stroke. he didn't own a cent from his writings. a lived very frugally in order to have enough money to print as books and close to the end of his life. he said, i think my dad won't come until the day after to morrow. he mentioned that some people her board post humorously find the money for can misnamed. ah,
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this is santiago. he's originally from what they're gonna, but has lived and worked in saint moritz for many years. as a ski instructor at mountain bike guide, i go on a tour with him followed by fondue. this is my final activity on my trip to the anger the and also a great way to experience the natural landscape. first, stop, that's a lake. it's even frozen over versus what special about the anger dean for you personally enjoy the it's hard to say, but everything is everything, not to the nature law. the gastronomy is greater than those the ambiance and i'm
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coming to nga. dean is like entering another world on that event would get the cold doesn't bother you at all. no. are you called his record yet? no, i more shall we continue with the highlight of the tour. it's cycling through the dark. and of course, the reward that waits us with more wanted i don't know the phone do is calling. oh
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i wow. santiago. how does it work before the health brought put a few pieces of bread on your plate. they love that stab one with your fork. ah yeah, oh yeah, i just duncan with bon appetite with ready for the next one. bit of for live, you lose your bread. you have to do the washing up fellowship. so ah, if you really want to get moving in winter,
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the angle dean is the perfect travel destination for you. but there's not only winter sports action here. that's also something that's increasingly difficult to find today. peace and remoteness by cnx that, ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, with
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