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  • Fish carcasses Vigo, Spain in the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and is  home to the first fish auction.<br />
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Swordfish and sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. Both species are down to 10 percent of their historic numbers. One of the world’s busiest seafood ports, Vigo auctions half a million tons of fish daily. As Europe’s largest fishing nation, Spain’s people consume 80 pounds of seafood per capita, 50 per cent higher than Europe’s average. Lower fish stocks have caused a 20-year decline in Spain’s catch.
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  • Fish are unloaded at the world's largest biomass fish shipping port.<br />
A swordfish is brought ashore in Vigo, Spain, one of the busiest seafood ports, handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. <br />
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Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies. <br />
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Yet Spain’s—and Europe’s—appetite for fish keeps growing. The EU is the world’s largest market, taking in 40 percent of all imported fish, with a large chunk coming from developing countries. Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.
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  • Morning fog rises from craggy mountain peaks in the Alps surrounding the Matterhorn. The Alps range formed when two tectonic plates of Africa dn Eurasia slowly collided millions of years ago creating some of highest peaks in Europe.<br />
Rugged Zinalrothorn and Weisshorn in the background.
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  • Monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Coffee break time for a scientist at Grimsel Test Site with a photograph of tunnels in the underground nuclear waste disposal research facility. Established in 1984, the centre for underground Research and Development supports a wide range of projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Skiers dressed in fashionable clothing wait in a lift line in St. Moritz which has been referred to as "Europe's winter playground."
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  • Scientists in white lab coats check monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Rifat Pinarbas readies his nets on the family fishing boat.
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  • A young girl is part of a typical fishing family enjoying a meal of mussels and other seafood.<br />
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Spain continues to be the European country that consumes the most fish, with 92% of Spanishs consuming fish and aquaculture products every month.
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  • This factory uses a geothermal cleanse to purify the saltwater that is used to process fish as they move down the line.
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  • A woman cooks a pot of octopi over an open fire for the Octopus Festival in Spain.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Sharks are stacked onto pallets after processing. Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<br />
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Fish is sent all over Spain and abroad to countries like Portugal, Italy, France and other more distant markets including Asia.
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  • A  young boy poses beside a pallet of sharks in Vigo which has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Swordfish and tuna are the greatest catches and are in decline from overfishing.
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  • A shark is processed in the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world where the Spanish shop for coveted seafood.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • A fish is displayed on a plate inside a restaurant window.<br />
Spain is virtually surrounded by the sea and eating fish and shellfish has been at the heart of Spanish cuisine for millennia. In fact, Spain trails only Japan in fish consumption per capita.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<br />
A worker carries a shark on a hook through the facility.
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  • A restaurant owner selects a boiled lobster to serve. It is a favorite among her customers in Galicia, Spain.
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  • A restaurant owner ties a bib on a customer before he enjoy his meal of lobster in Spain where fish is a large part of their diet.<br />
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Olga has the best seafood restaurant in Galicia, Spain.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads on racks, and the protein is sent to Nigeria.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are among the purest in the world.
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  • A long line fishermen is proud of his large catch.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are among the purest in the world.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are <br />
among the purest in the world.
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  • Fish carcasses at Vigo, the largest biomass fish in shipping port in the world.<br />
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 Sharks are sprayed with water as they are being processed for food. Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • A fish tangled in a net on board a fishing vessel off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • The sea captain and workers fish off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands in Iceland.
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  • Laborers washing their hands at the Visir Fish Factory after hanging their gloves on a rack in Iceland.
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  • Over 5,000 meals of bluefin tuna are prepared at the Bonita Fesitiva in Spain.
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  • A couple kissing in the streets of downtown Reykjavik.
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  • Vigo, Spain has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and it is the home of the first fish auction.  Sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. The species is down to 10 percent of historic numbers.
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  • A typical fishing family enjoys a meal of Spanish paella with rice mussels and other seafood. One of the world's busiest seafood ports, Vigo, auctions half a million tons of fish daily contributing to pressures on marine life with fish stocks in decline.
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  • Luzinterruptus, an anonymous art collective in Madrid that creates installation art with plastic waste all over the world.
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  • A boy bounces a soccer ball of his head while playing on a field near a large statue of a man with two horses.
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  • Infrastructure near the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy passing 11.6 kilometers under the mountain.<br />
The tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps and was first opened in 1965. A more than seven mile cut was made through Mont Blanc mountain linking Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • A religious Ladin man reads a newspaper while watching a Catholic funeral on television in the kitchen of his farm house in the Dolomites. The community is close-knit and have a language unique to their region in LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • Street are lit at dusk outside a plush hotel in St. Moritz. Glitzy designer shops attract high-end tourists for a glamorous vacation in the Swiss Alps.
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  • A waiter prepares a dining room by freshening the floral arrangements in a plush hotel in the Swiss Alps. The elegant Badrutt's Palace opened in 1896, and over the years has welcomed tourists and celebrities like Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin.
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  • Workers ride an elevator up as they come off shift working to seal off a mercury mine. It is a 500 year old problem that has polluted underground water in Idrija and surrounding areas although closed in 1995. It was the second largest in the world. Mercury can be used to extract silver and gold, therefore the silver and gold-rush motivated mercury mining. The mining industry brought science, technological advancements, and industry to this mountainous region but it also created considerable medical problems and health hazard due to its toxicity.
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  • Illegal Senegalese street vendors living in Barcelona.
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  • Onlookers watch an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Dancing in a Barcelona nightclub.
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  • Young commuters on the Barcelona metro.
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  • A family detained in Barcelona because family member is suspected terrorist.
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  • A father takes his son on his roll-aboard suitcase to the bus.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • An elderly woman has a front-window view of a Good Friday procession.
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  • Physical therapy room at the largest nursing home facility in Italy.
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  • A Filipino worker takes care of an elderly  Italian woman.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Opera lessons at a nursing home.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Immigrant Indian women draped in dupattas crowd a street at a Sikh festival in Ramblas Catalunya in Barcelona.
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  • Sestriere, site of the men's downhill skiing during 2006 Olympics.
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  • Alternate cover of the February, 2006 National Geographic Magazine.
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  • A farmer splits logs for firewood to heat the farm through winter in an Alpine rural village of LaVal in the Dolomite mountains in Italy.
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  • Free-roaming goats wander near an alpine restaurant in Austria where tourists hike trails through the Alps green, mountain landscape for a lunch destination.
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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
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  • Two nephews watch their uncle milk a cow in the pasture on the farm in a rural area near the Dolomites. The isolated mountain community LaVal has roots in agriculture speak their own ethnic Ladin language.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • Scenic view of the picturesque Ladin village of LaVa in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Perched on the lush green, hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara. <br />
The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, in which the western part of the Tethys Ocean, that was formerly in between the continents, disappeared millions of years ago.
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  • Bird's-eye view of a vineyard and train tracks running through the bustling city of Balzano in the South Tyrol province of northern Italy. Set in a valley amid steep hills, it is a gateway to the Dolomites mountain range in the Italian Alps.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • Mont Blanc rises in the distance behind craggy peaks and ridges seen in an aerial image. Drifting morning fog lifts revealing the snow-covered White Mountain, the highest in the Alps measuring nearly 16,000 feet. Located in the watershed between valleys in Italy and France, ownership of the summit has been a subject of historical dispute. <br />
The mountain is famous for the emergence of modern alpine mountaineering  after the first ascent in 1786.
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  • Tourists mug for a friend's photograph on the streets of Zermatt.<br />
Zermatt grows from 5 thousand to 20 thousand people from tourism in high season.  There is a tension between welcoming the tourists, which drives the economy, and yet limiting the impact.  Zermatt bans cars from the street—visitors take a train or tax from a nearby town and the streets are filled mostly with foot traffic except a few buses.
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  • A glacier recedes near the Matterhorn leaving ridges and jagged peaks where there was once ice. An aerial photo shows much of the iconic mountain was carved away by glacial erosion. <br />
The National Snow and Ice Data Center describes Matterhorn geology in "All About Glaciers." Cirques are rounded hollows or bowl shapes after a glacier has melted away. Aretes are jagged narrow rides created when two glaciers meet eroding on both sides. And horns are created when several cirque glaciers erode until all that is left is a steep, pointed peak with sharp ridge-like Arêtes leading to the top.
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  • Morning fog rises over a summit cross on Zinalrothorn and other mountain peaks in the Alps surrounding the Matterhorn. Image is made from an early morning helicopter flight.
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  • Japanese tourists gather and take pictures from the main plaza in Zermatt  where they can view the famous near-symmetric pyramidal peak, the Matterhorn. It straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy.
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  • A blanket is rolled onto the Pitztal Glacier to keep ice from melting and  protect the ski industry in the Alps.<br />
Glacial melts first recorded at the start of the 19th century—a point that also coincides with the start of the industrial age and burning of large amounts of fossil fuels. Since then the glaciers have lost between 30 to 40% of their area and nearly half their volume.  The coverings remind us of little mountains they are creating out of felt.
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  • A blanket is rolled onto the Pitztal Glacier to prevent snow from melting. It is a method workers use to combat the effects of climate change and global warming.  Integral to the local economy, ski resorts need protection from higher temperatures that melt the ice.
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  • A worker spreads out cheese cloth while making Alkase cheese in a copper kettle. A signature characteristic of Swiss cheeses is the use of copper. In fact, to be called gruyère, Emmentaler, raclette, or even French Comté, these cheeses must be made using a copper vat because it distributes heat evenly.
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  • Japanese tourists visit Heidiland, home of the fictional character Heidi from the book by Johanna Spryri. It is a destination for an idyllic look at the Swiss countryside in the Alps even on a rainy day requiring umbrellas.
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  • A busload of Japanese tourists are directed out after they walk into a private home by mistake in Heidi village. They were touring by bus through Heidiland, which gets its name from Johanna Spryri's fictional book titled "Heidi." The collection of statues depicting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is part of the communities lore.
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  • A summit cross depicts a Christian crucifix standing high on a peak in the Dolomite Mountains. The cross is seen from an aerial flight.
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  • Aerial view of morning fog rising from the Dolomites, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbering 18 peaks which rise above 3,000 meters. Jagged ridges  are made of  characteristic rock consisting of fossilized coral reefs formed during the Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago) by organisms and sedimentary matter at the bottom of the ancient tropical Tethys Ocean.
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  • Aerial view of the Dolomites dusted with snow under a setting full moon at sunrise. The mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbers 18 peaks that rise above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems.
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  • Skiers negotiate rocks on the ski runs at Passo Di Sella in the Dolomites where the snow pack melts and annually declines because of warming temperatures. Climate change is warming mountain regions at the lower elevation.
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  • Dimly lit tunnels through the Alps allow traffic to avoid snow-covered passes.
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  • A blur envelopes a young parishioner who carries a candle-lit canvas lantern in a processional that celebrates Christians' Holy Week. It is a centuries-old annual Mendrisio tradition.
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  • Monday is laundry day at Val Mustair.  Nuns working to hang clothes to dry in the sun are reflected in windows overlooking the Christian convent courtyard. A world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, the convent is home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work but they come together for prayer and meals. Eleven of the nuns who live there speak a variation of the Romanche language.
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  • A nun hangs laundry out to dry in the cloistered convent courtyard at Val Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Benedictine nuns since the 12thCentury.
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  • The kitchen counter looks like a still life of oranges, a knife and cutting boards in Convent Saint John in Val Mustair.
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  • Monday is laundry day at Val Mustair as nuns fold a flowered sheet in the convent courtyard. The world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site is in the Swiss Alps. Founded in the 8th century, the Christian convent is home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work and they come together for meals and prayer.
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  • A nun tunes her guitar while her sisters rehearse music in the cloistered Convent St. John in Val Mustair. A UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Christian Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century.
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  • Nuns pray in the chapel at Convent at St. John Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work and they come together for Christian prayer and meals.
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  • Reflected windows arranged with designer bags, a shopkeeper watches for tourists in the upscale St. Moritz Prada store. Luxury shops and boutiques attract clientele and customers eager for the glitz of trendy designs.
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  • Girlfriends cuddle puppies that bring them joy in a family's barn in the Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Mother teaches her daughter to cook traditional foods in their family's restaurant in the small Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Twilight falls on the quiet, Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites where the church stands high on the hillside. The picturesque community in the Alps depends on agriculture and crafts.
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  • A Ladin family travels to church in LaVal on a horse-drawn sled. The brothers and sister keep to old traditions that include an ethnic language only spoken in the isolated village in the Dolomites. The Church of Santa Barbara is a 15th century Gothic building.
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  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
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  • A farmer carries milk cans into the barn twice a day to milk his cows in a Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites. Small dairy farms support local economy in mountain regions of northern Italy.
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  • Beloved icons, St. Bernard dogs were once indispensable for their abilities to save people buried by avalanches. Although replaced by modern equipment, traditions die hard and the dogs are maintained as a tourist attraction.  200 years ago St Bernard dogs saved 45 of Napoleon’s soldiers buried in an avalanche—the dog was bayoneted to death when one soldier thought he was being attacked by a bear.  St. Bernards are cared for by a foundation in Martigny, France.
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  • After a candle-lit bath in milk and honey, a couple is served champagne, then they snuggle down in a straw-filled bed. Luxury spas find unique ways to attract tourists.
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  • A couple shares a milk-and-honey bath in a bathroom lit by candles at a luxury spa in the Alps. Tourists are attracted to unique experiences offered at various, unique resorts.
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  • View of the iconic Matterhorn and surrounding mountains in the Alps is made from a morning helicopter flight.  First ascent of the 14,692-foot mountain was in 1865 although four climbers died on the descent. <br />
The National Snow and Ice Data Center describes Matterhorn geology in "All About Glaciers." Cirques are rounded hollows or bowl shapes after a glacier has melted away. Aretes are jagged narrow rides created when two glaciers meet eroding on both sides. And horns are created when several cirque glaciers erode until all that is left is a steep, pointed peak with sharp ridge-like Arêtes leading to the top.
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