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oh, 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. that's a valley and this with alps. and it's my very 1st time. winter always arrives a little earlier in the year here. the mountains in the the are already covered with no lakes located about 1800 meters above sea level. have not yet frozen overn. 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

the good in and in order to warm up every now and then i have plan 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 you believe nature love to get away from it all in the, in getting ah hands because we're in switzerland. we just have to show you one of its most famous landmarks the matter on and our sample, some local specialties like anger, the not kick and cheese phone to 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 pretty quiet before the destinations peak season. tour guide leave you 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. none that 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 party as long as you want the bit. yes, they had to pay the side. as the result, st morris 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 $1658.00 owned dollars. i'll explain the architecture a bit more about here. the traditional houses were built with really thick walls today. got a cold and you can see that the windows are set back slightly. why don't you keep the warmth inside glass and yet still allow sufficient daylight in? and then i have individual windows that haven't rates in front of them before they have proof that the saracens were here. if you go to an arab country like morocco or tenicia to day, you'll see filigree window grades like this everywhere. oh, by the way, there is also a leaning tower in saint moritz, the remnant of the st. maricia church stance on an unstable slope and has to be secured again and again.

saint moritz consists of 2 districts. and escalator takes you comfortably from xact, wheat stove, or village down to exact more heat spot or spot. on the walls, you can see photos with motifs from winter sports history. international competitions take place in this with mountain town regularly. even the st. lawrence lake is used in winter for a rather unusual event. a portable tournament

who and this lake is guaranteed to be frozen over every year so that horses can walk on it. yeah, yeah, this in december we need about a wreck of minus 30 degree temperatures every night. ideally without any wind and then it freezes over nicely, it'll be covered and 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 braces. sure . your eyes are tearing up from the cold. yeah. well, i live. thank you very much for taking the time today. you know, it's my pleasure. come back any time. well, i noticed st more it is a pretty cold place in winter. so exercise is required, and right now i'm going cross country ski ish named it as there's the slightest

look of it 1st i'm going to take your poles away so we can start off together. turning on here in switzerland, we say that every one always has a chocolate foot. they might one that's a bit better than the other. well, which is yours. okay, this is done shy to say the right one, that is to the right one, and then we'll put on your left ski though. okay, so that is now your more or less fully attach it or the he'll remains free in cross country skiing, but i am long low. hm. oh well you helpful with the extended leg? yeah, i do. okay. verse right side, band, your knee and ankle organ, and then let yourself fall forward like a board on to the left ski from g. r a left is the hardest. this law again, or bend down on the right. look ahead,

a 4 and let yourself all 4 were of all and loss. very good when that's cavity. now i'll give you these 2 rings to hold, and you'll keep looking ahead, horner on then when the left he moves forward. all the right hand comes up or does it so can you take really small steps at for i none. should it then level been lifted and diverse or the 3rd leaf? ha, ha. ha, ha, ha mon. with him 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. very nice. with after i

finally get going, i can't help but challenge hines. a little through how bout a little races. technically i get with the trail also serves as a training route for a young athletes. this is so exhausting. i'm sweating so much that my clothes are soaked.

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 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.

ah, it's very tasty in the perfect way to refuel. the oh. all right, before i go ski, let me show you a swiss national symbol. the motto 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

claimed the lives of many climbers. the 1st, the sense was finally made an 18. 65 that history is documented. here at the mac 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 and disaster when 4 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 perched i get it. but during the senate upstate, these 7 years became 4 tragic heroes that argue she held because you might assume short, there's the father occurred in that split 2nd. instantly catapulted and dizzy mommy heroes form held dead men soon. porton him that was incredibly bitter and was

sodden. on t as 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 quotes or, or one girl for bite to call that he never admitted it. it had this need, so good game. that's 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, zoom outs 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, 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, it's all sydney that's not the road sometimes it's shrouded in snow. with the times it's visible from miles away, but do much horns, mystique draws visitors in time and time again. ah, to now my sites are set high to the of when it's a is the name of a ski area near st. morris. with what a view, man, lean us, your mountain soccer. that's then we're going to an altitude of almost 3000 meters

. and because i don't have a lot of experience lenise my ski instructor, it should help me on the slopes. i'm hoping i'm. 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 as i sleep in twice the 3rd times a charm and the weather's perfect wasn't perfect, thought i done better. i want to take it slow. at 1st the snow plow technique will check and up again.

lena's, this technique looks a bit more elegant. oh look, a shower her faked. where's the applause lino c annoyed down here in comes crowds 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. tell lenise what do you say? what grade would you give me for today to me again for northern talk to them. i think it's hard for today. i give you a b. you did very well, and that was a tough star. this is really, really good. how to start with her. thank you. or if you are a benevolent teacher,

i've, i've that research 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 love today. ah, you cannot only go skiing here. you also have a great view. ah 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. got the whole place to myself. ah,

this is maria and the neighboring lakes. it has fascinated travellers over decades . the german philosopher really nice, for example, was often here this is the place where the famous need. she used to walk around here. he could let his thoughts run free. ah, really nature came to this maria regularly in the 18 eighty's, and this is where he stayed. the house was converted and opened as

a museum in 1960 unlike me however, neat it was only here in summer cuff, i'm because this is the room. he actually stated, i'm allowed in yes. of the 5. 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 all mcleana. yeah, i thought when is it? yes, that house was already there. yeah. 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 vo spoke zarathustra. there is this beautiful notion directly linking physical movement with spiritual freedom guys zarathustra once said, have been, i learned to walk my since then, have i let myself run in? so let's go run and be free. the flow from the from dish toilets

ah, leeches 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 via isn't actually typical of nature took. i wasn't really a people person 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. at 1779, he came to anchor dean for the 1st time to st. more it's gotten to was an rupture 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

a mountain pass that than the glaciers and opening to the south. if not from suton, him and 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 wasted? 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 it though, spoke zarathustra. he didn't own a cent from his writings. if a d a lived very frugally in order to have enough money to print his books forms and close to the end of his life, he said athens my day 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,

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 phone, do. this is my final activity on my trip to the anger eat. 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 every things is every thing not to the nature law. the gastronomy is greater than those the ambient and i'm coming to nga. dean is like entering another

world is on that event would get the cold doesn't bother you at all. i know. are you called her cold yet? no, i'm warm, 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 one i don't know the phone do is calling oh,

i drafted wow. santiago. how does it work? becomes in health, but 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. what? ah, i'm ready for the next one. bit of for leave, you lose your bread. you have to do the washing up to kind of rush so ah, if you really want to get moving in winter,

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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