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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 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, in the are already covered with no lakes located about 1800 meters above sea level . have not yet frozen over me. i my destination is st. morris. a place that stands for winter tourism like no other it's pretty cold up here in the entity and in order to warm
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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 we believe nature love to get away from it all in the, in getting ah times because we're 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 pretty quiet before the destinations peak season. tour guide leave you place to go
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explained to me that winter tourism was the result of a better between the hotel owner, your highness bartlet and a group of 4 summer travelers from england. none that he made a bed with the english guest. he said, come to st. 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 like. he won the bet. yes, they had to pay the side. as the 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 when the dominated lex blamed the architecture. a bit more
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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 the 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 filigree window. great like this everywhere. oh, by the way, there is also a leaning tower in saint moritz, the remnant of the st. maricia church stands on an unstable slope and has to be secured again and again. the ah saint moritz consists of 2 districts and
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escalator takes you comfortably from xact will heat stove or village down to the zack will 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? ah, even the saint moritz lake is used in winter for a rather unusual event a portable tournament and
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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. wealth of 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. them did us as the slightest look of it. first i'm going to take your polls away so we can start off together. turning on here in switzerland,
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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 there and 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 louthan. oh boy, he careful with the extended legs, sir, or do a good roasts. right side, her bend your knee and ankle logan and then let yourself fall forward. like a board on to the left ski from g. r. a left is the hardest law those again to a bent down on the right. look ahead afford and let yourself fall forward of all
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and loss. very good when that's cavity. now i'll give you these 2 rings to hold and you'll keep looking a hat for dinner and then when the left he moves forward on the right hand comes up on tarzan. 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 ha man. 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. very nice. with
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you get the hang of it, it's a ton of fun gliding over the snow, especially with a backdrop like this. ah ah 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 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. i
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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 matter on one of the most famous mountains in the world . i. 6 6 with its striking summit, 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 danger slopes. the mountain has claimed the lives of many climbers. the 1st,
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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 in disaster. when for members of his team, including mountaineer, michel croz fell to their debts. vin peralta. onboarding when fur was determined to be the 1st to reach the top from sy loss, he detached himself on the route best and arrived 1st as was fisher. i was certainly a triumphant mountaineering career, it perched i get it, but during the descent of steve, these 7 heroes became for tragic heroes, but argues she held because you might say short, they're the father occurred in that split 2nd. instantly catapulted on these in the me heroes form held dead men sole porton he that was incredibly bitter and for saga
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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 m on it's, i'm putting one on one together. you could deduce that whimper, color ruin to get past quotes for all mongrel for bye 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 before any fish or tail if autumn, it has a very special shape. under concord, if, as
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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 associated me, 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 of when 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 i don't
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have a lot of experience lenise, my ski instructor should help me on the slopes. i'm jumping fly more. 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 back, i want to take it slow at 1st. the snow plow technique will check and up again. leaders this technique looks
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a bit more elegant. lucas shower her faked. where's the applause lino c annoyed down here in comes 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. pedal lenise. what do you say? what grade would you give me for today to me again for the north and talk to them, i think and thought for to dia, give you a b, you did very well, and that was a tough star. this is really, 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.
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ah ah ah ah ah, my next stop takes me away from the slopes to it 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 whole place to myself. ah maria and the neighboring lakes. it has fascinated travellers over decades. the
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german philosopher freely meacham, for example, was often here ah, this is the place where the same as each used to walk around here. you could let his thoughts run free. ah, really nature came to the 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
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me however neat it was only here in summer. oh, tough. i'm here. this is the room he actually stayed in. 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 nitrous view. what we see out there is what he saw then and i'm a could be enough. yeah, i thought when his it yes, that house was already there, yeoman's, and there was a path up into the woods on, on each i loved taking walks on. and that's evident it through his works when but in thus spoke zarathustra, there's this beautiful notion directly linking physical movement with spiritual freedom and guys zarathustra. one said, have been, i learned to walk my since then, have i let myself run here? good. so let's go run and be free. the flow from the, from the pilot, ah,
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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 and bon or as a professor and bother that isn't actually typical of nature. 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 most popular. incidentally, he gave up his prussian citizenship and used a swiss passport to travel. as i'm talking 79, he came to anger dean for the 1st time to st more. it's a guy, and was enraptured by 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, and it than declares, ears and opening to the south. if not from suton,
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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. bruno wouldn't each of feel that we're here talking about him with everything displayed 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 writings. if a d 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, her board post humorously signed the money for kent misnamed. ah,
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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 dean for you personally enjoy the it's, it's hard to say, but everything's everything, 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 under the bed. would decant,
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i see. well, santiago, how does it work be from the mouth, but put a few pieces of bread on your plate. they love the stab one with your fork. ah yeah, oh yeah, i just duncan. so with one up at eat with ready for the next one. with the for live, you lose your bread. you have to do the washing up and the rush. so ah, if you really want to get moving in winter, the anger dean is the perfect travel destination for you. but there is not only
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