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...Below the hulking rocky mass of the Devil’s Point, a group of young women approach a small mountain shelter on a rainy late-summer day. Grey skies bear down....
...I’d met several of them the previous night in the Selá’s expansive fishing lodge....
..., Wedge Mountain Lodge & Spa....
...Despite the sweetness, the area bears a torrid history....
...The eight- or 10-day Kenya Skysafari variously takes in Loisaba, the Mara and Amboseli, staying at (excellent) Elewana camps and lodges, from $9,144. @mariashollenbarger...
...My ad interim home is the Drei Berge Hotel, a 19-key lodge owned by French-Moroccan polymath designer and entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami....
...A 10-minute walk from the Shadow Mountain chairlift, the hotel’s roof-terrace lounge bar, with plunge pool and views of Aspen Mountain, promises to become a fixture on the après-ski scene....
...He points downstream to a tributary hidden behind a mountain. “A Russian got two there,” he says....
...The yellow dot turns into a polar bear and its cub. We climb the scree slope and settle to watch. The bear stalks a nervy seal, dropping into cracks in the ice before popping up closer....
...That it was one of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s hunting lodges is not lost on Romanians nostalgic for the past....
...(Those seeking more contemporary luxury will find it at Sage Lodge — where an outdoor spa and triple-height windows offer stunning views of snow-dusted mountains — only a short drive away.)...
...Just don’t come expecting the hot tubs and cigar lounges found at some Canadian heli-ski lodges. More memorable treats lie in the mountains all around....
...investigated over ‘personal misconduct’ claim (FT) Indian insurer LIC kicks off record $2.7bn IPO (Nikkei Asia) Singapore deal allows SocGen bankers to flee Hong Kong (FT) Standard Chartered shareholders lodge...
...It feels not unlike a safari camp: new construction is strictly limited here, so guests stay in 16 removable wooden lodges, temporarily anchored in mountain meadows....
...lodge), there’s more than 500 miles of trails to explore in Eagle Cap, which is the largest wilderness in the state, home to more than 100 alpine lakes and four rivers (and bighorn sheep, and bear, and...
...One year they arrived to find a bear had wintered in their cabin....
...At Ol Donyo Lodge, on the edge of Kenya’s Chyulu Hills national park, the riding is a hallmark of the experience....
...The Accursed Mountains, which straddle the borders of Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro are wild and empty — home to brown bears, grey wolves, and the endangered Balkan lynx, from which the company takes its...
...In Colorado, fluorescent-feathered, life-sized polar bears captured in human-like positions – from yoga poses to hugging – will lurk in lift lodges and ski chalets around Aspen Mountain, Snowmass and at...
...So too is the over-the-counter herb native to Taos called osha, which has been used to treat illness for millennia (by both humans and bears, giving it its alternative name: “bear root”)....
...As well as skiing slopes few others have seen, let alone skied, the trip offers a chance to experience Inuit culture and to spot arctic wildlife, including polar bears....
...The Italian architect Matteo Thun, well known for the Vigilius Mountain Resort in the South Tyrol and the Waldhotel at the Swiss Burgenstock resort, has transformed a late 19th-century neo-renaissance building...
...From the steep-sided mountain behind the house you could see Switzerland, and by late October the air was sharp and clean and the tops of the mountains were white with snow....
...Few, except for private equity with its mountains of “dry powder”, were thinking about acquisitions. But it was nothing a bit of financial stimulus couldn’t fix....
...Tiffany Leece Lodge, philanthropy manager at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Richard Lodge, a stockbroker, married in Sydney, in June (up to 20 attendees permitted), at St Mark’s Anglican Church,...
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