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Chasing Swissness

This content was published on Aug 2, 2011 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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Ridgey business

This content was published on Jul 31, 2011 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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Mountain people

This content was published on Jul 31, 2011 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…

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World Cup draw kind to Swiss

This content was published on Jul 31, 2011 Other teams in Europe zone Group E include Slovenia, Albania and Iceland. The draw was held in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. Speaking after the draw, assistant coach of the Swiss national team Michel Pont described the draw as “relatively kind”. “If we have a full team, if we continue to drive the emergence of the…

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Outdoor operators learn lesson of managing risk

This content was published on Jul 31, 2011 But until the law is implemented on January 1, 2013, anyone in the country can still claim to be a mountain, canyoning or river rafting guide. It was arguably the unregulated nature of the outdoor sports industry that in the summer of 1999 made possible the chain of events that led to the deaths of…

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Twists of fate

This content was published on Jul 30, 2011 Last night near dark and in deep fog, four French climbers finally found our hut, thanks to the siren the guardian repeatedly sounded. Life had been difficult for them for a while, and you could see the relief on their faces as they dived into their soup. Beno and I awoke with the guardian at…

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Foreign families trust Swiss boarding schools

This content was published on Jul 30, 2011 There are some 100,000 students enrolled in private Swiss schools, according to the Swiss Federation of Private Schools (SFPS). They come from all over – in particular Russia, Germany, France, Britain and the United States, as well as Switzerland. Within the boarding schools, about 80 per cent of the students are foreign and the rest…

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Bella Nella succumbs to cancer

This content was published on Jul 30, 2011 The Ticinese musician achieved national fame in 1986 when she won the Grand Prix of Popular Music with her song, “Bella Musica”. She also penned “Ne partez pas sans moi” (Don’t leave without me), the song with which Canadian singer Celine Dion won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Switzerland. It was the…

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Young women “have as much self-esteem” as men

This content was published on Jul 29, 2011 They say the results could help iron out misconceptions that men have more feelings of self-worth than women, which could lead to self-esteem problems among young males being overlooked. Scientists from Basel University looked at data from the young adults section of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from the United States to see how…

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