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The latest statistics from the Status 2011 report of the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention record 2,000 deaths from free-time accidents, and related costs of around SFr12 billion ($15.45 billion). Some 610,000 people suffered injuries at home or during leisure activities, while a further 315,000 were sports-related and 90,000 involved road traffic accidents. The number…
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Photographer Albert Winkler (1923-1978) was a leading light of the new reporter generation after the Second World War. His work was varied and sophisticated, characterised by a humanistic world view. An exhibition in Bern’s Kornhausforum, accompanied by a book, bring a new audience and respect to the forgotten photographer.
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Père tells swissinfo.ch about his vision for the festival and how he has managed to persuade Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and other big names to attend. The festival, which is in its 64th year, starts on August 3 in the Ticino lakeside resort. Among the highlights are Cowboys & Aliens by Jon Favreau, featuring Ford,…
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The 1,000 meters or so of ascent – mostly up massive boulderfields – was sweaty but not a big deal. It was the nearly 3,000 meters of descent (in two stages) that I can still feel, especially since most of it was extremely steep. The steepest of all was the final forest where I clung…
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Today is the big Swiss national holiday, when they celebrate their ancient Swissness. I’m still in Italy, but if I move fast enough I’ll make it over a couple more passes and then descend into the Bregaglia valley of the Engadine region – in other words, Switzerland. There, in the town of Soglio, people are…
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At least that’s what Beno told me as he stepped delicately across what seemed to me lime vertical rubble. “Here you must go like a butterfly.” Not long after that I found myself trapped with nothing I felt I could touch that would not fall down with me on it. Beno had just butterflied across…
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Beno was just 11 years old when he first climbed Bernina, with his dad. Giuseppe della Rodolfa was 15. By age 25 he was a mountain guide, taking clients up Bernina while based at the Marinelli-Bombardieri hut. Now he’s the caretaker of perhaps Italy’s oldest mountain hut, the Marinelli. During a normal season Giuseppe would…
