in the forests of lapland small huts along the way offer hikers a little wrist to warm up with a hot drink after a long day. you know it's a very obviously when the season is on you have to make the most of it. because you know 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. surfing at minus twenty degrees celsius on snowboards without bindings a wild landscape without prepared ski runs and without ski lifts that's how you try to and from lapland like it this. typical alpine hot summer a romantic sight. 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 energy efficiency well alst tala is an austrian cabinet maker who is well known for his work with old wood and he believes that heritage materials need to be preserved and he turned an old alpine 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 catc

from lapland like it. a 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 energy efficiency will alst tala is an austrian cabinet maker who is well known for his work with old wood and he believes that heritage materials need to be preserved and he turned an old alpine hot into among refuge with the difference. to get up to the alpine chalet in winter snow can be more than a metre deep from months here on mt to catch back at one thousand six hundred fifty meters above sea level in the austrian state of currency. common to ns tunnel and heritage the four hundred year old chalet from his ancestors and restored it painstakingly by hand according to age old tradition. after the same of 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 larg

like many reindeer herdsmen here in lapland, erik supplements his income with tourism.kes small groups of tourists into the forest on a reindeer safari. it is a proper winter wonderland. so beautiful out here. everywhere you look is just a postcard. finally, it is my turn to have a go. if you want to go, you just say go. as simple as that? 0k. go, go! reindeer, go! he is not listening to me. go, reindeer! go! maybe we will take the next one. 0k. we will take the next one. before i set off, erik gives me some last few tips. just pull it. and then he will stop in an emergency. he will stop. so this is my emergency brake? whoo—hoo! we are going! this is so spectacular. my first ever sleigh ride. let's go, son, let's go. it still may not be the fastest of rides but it seems to be the smoothest and most magical way to enjoy this landscape. 3.5 hours south—west of the big city is the vast expanse of desert called liwa. it is the uae's driest region. it is remote but beautiful. it is a world apart from the big city. at this annual sports festival, there are camel and horse rac

i mean snow surfing we live in lapland and we spend a lot of time well ninety nine percent of the time we hike. maybe one percent or more is actual surfing you know spending so much time and it's you obviously get a. sense of what things are like he didn't make much sense to us to slap bright graphics on them we might experiment with some color and graphics soon but. to begin with we just thought it would be nice to have a simple this would be but that's. acceptable to the owner with a few friends they're out surfing as often as possible all winter long. if you know somebody tell you to go because. 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 lap land small huts along the way offer hikers a little wrist to warm up with a hot drink after a long day. you know you're going to be obviously when the season is on you have to make the most of it. because you k