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oh mm. i'm almost there. all that's left is this mountain pass. this time i'm going to be pretty high up in the angle dean. 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, these are already covered with snow. the lakes located about 1800 meters above sea level, have not yet frozen over ah, my destination is saint moritz, a place that stands for winter tourism light. no. it's pretty cold up here in the

end of the 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 mean time 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 and then 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 free 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 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 lead 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 saint moritz 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 wing 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 today, it's quite braces shut. your eyes are tearing up from the cold. well, if thank you very much for taking the time to day, most 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 or. okay, it'll and that is now your more last fully attach it or the he'll remains free in cross country skiing, but i am long low. hm. oh boy, you're in full with the extended legs. yeah, i do. okay. rests right side, her bend your knee and ankle again, and then let yourself fall forward like a board on to the left. ski from she or a laugh is the hardest not her voice again, wait to bend down on the right. look ahead. a 4 and let yourself all 4 were of all

and loss. very good, and that's cavity. now i'll give you these 2 rings to hold and you'll keep looking ahead for dinner. and then when the left sky moves forward, on the right hand comes up on top of that. so can you take really small steps at for i none. should it then level been lifted and diverse her firmly. ha, ha ha, ha ha man. if he for me, i don't understand why this is so difficult at all. i have to do is stand my lame and a bonfire. excuse me. oh job. this must look totally stupid. they're very nice. with after i

finally get going, i can't help but challenge hines a new through how better than race ethnic i get with the trail also serves as a training route for a young athletes. this is so excel thing. i was wondering so much, but 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, i go, oh, 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.

ah, it's very tasty in the perfect way to refuel. for the me. 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 motto horn has long been a symbol of switzerland and the power of nature ah, previously considered unconquerable due to its menacing heights and danger 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 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 felt at her debts vin peralta. onboarding when her was determined to be the 1st to reach the top from silos, he detached herself 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 heroes became for tragic heroes, but argues she held because you might say short there is the father occurred in that split 2nd and instantly catapulted on these a mummy hearers form hell to dead men soon. porton him that was incredibly bitter

for sagen on his lot on gall, please. 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 by foreign and 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, if 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. now my sites are set high to the oven. it's a is the name of a ski area near saint maurice. with what a view man, lean us, your mountain that's then we're going to now 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 to vendors if you've been twice. the 3rd time's the charm and the weather's birth. it wasn't a bad thought, i thought becky, 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. lucas shower her, faked where's the applause lino c annoyed? now parent comes proud 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. pedal lenise. what do you say? what great would you give me for today? to me again for the northern talk for you than i thought for today i 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. or if you are a benevolent teacher i've, 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 love today. ah, you cannot only go skiing here. you also have a great view. ah ah

ah ah ah ah ah ah, my next stop takes me away from the slopes to zip from a neighboring town of the more cosmopolitan saint moritz. everything here is a bit more rustic. ah, it's pretty deserted here. got the old place to myself. ah, this is maria and the neighboring lakes. it has fascinated travellers over decades

. the german philosopher freely meet you, for example, was often here ah, this is the place where the famous beaches used to walk around here. you should let his thoughts run free. ah, really nature came to this navea regularly in the 800 eighty's and this is where he stayed. the house was converted and opened as a museum in 1960 unlike

me however niche, it was only here in summer. oh, tough. i'm busy. 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 how much they not. 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. i don't, and that's evident it through as works. when does in vo spoke zarathustra. there's this beautiful notion directly linking physical movement with spiritual freedom guys zarathustra. one said, have been that 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 dish pilot. ringback

ah, leeches salt and found peace and relaxation in the anger in 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 bon or as a professor and bother that 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 of north from suton,

him, and in $1889.00 niches 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 this plate, this wasted. yeah, i love it 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. spokes are a thorough stroke. he didn't own a cent from his writing safety. a lived very frugally in order to have enough money to print his books and close to the end of his life. he said, i think my day won't come until the day after to morrow. he mentioned that some people are bored post humorously find the money for can misnamed. ah,

this is santiago he's originally from, but 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, the in for you personally enjoy the it's hard to say, but every things is every thing not to the nature. ah, 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 the so called yet? no, i'm warm, shall we continue with the, with the highlight of the tour is cycling through the dark and of course the reward that waits us with more one either show us as a phone do is calling ah

ah, with santiago, how does it work be from the mouth brought put a few pieces of bread on your plate that stab want with your fork. ah, yeah. i just duncan with one of the teeth with ready for the next one. but the for live, you lose your bread. you have to do the washing up and the russian so 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 to day peace and remoteness by cnx back. ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, with ah,

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