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...figures in swirling blown glass, who are conceived as “protectors of the glaciers and the permafrost”....
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...By 2pm we had made it to the end of the valley and clambered over the ridge on to the dazzling expanse of the upper Stein glacier, the peak of the Sustenhorn to our right....
..., a ski property agent....
...We kick crampons between crystal ridges and turquoise slits in the surface. Azure crevasses cut down out of sight as we process into a frozen churn of ridges and bowls....
...Both glaciers have now shrunk so much that summer skiing is impossible and melting permafrost has forced the removal of the two highest lifts....
...The new Matterhorn Glacier Ride II, which is the highest cable car in the Alps, means you can now go from Cervinia to Zermatt on foot,” says Rollason....
...The company is also investing in its new Rhodes Ridge prospect — one of the largest undeveloped iron ore prospects in the world — in the Pilbara region in Western Australia, the Mongolian Oyu Tolgoi copper...
...This includes the homebuilders (up 40 per cent or so) and commercial real estate plays such as Boston Properties and Simon Property Group....
...“From that corner, straight up above private property, is also private property,” he said....
...Property prices are soaring as a result: between 2017 and 2022, prime real estate prices rose 69 per cent in Val d’Isère, according to Savills....
...Around about is a vast landscape of stone and mud, smoothed by glaciers....
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...On a high mountain ridge, before the firescape began, we were guided by a local delivery worker to a vista of blue anchusas and yellow verbascums, interspersed with grey-flowered Echium italicum, carpets...
...An example of the latter is The Residence du Glacier in the centre of Saas-Fee, a traditional ski village near the Italian border, where 21 apartments are selling from SFr1.05mn (€1.06mn) for three bedrooms...
...For the moment, her Pinot and Chardonnay fruit come from La Vierge in Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge and the wine is made by Hamilton Russell’s talented winemaker Emul Ross....
...Back in Paris, Touhami has signed on two properties destined to open as restaurants in November 2024 – one, a French izakaya, will be led by Kobayashi – and he is already scoping out properties in Japan...
...Flavio and I were so committed to our bikes, and our ethos, that engaging a tour operator, taking a shuttle or even hitching a ride to one of the fancier properties would have felt like cheating....
...Glaciers at high altitudes are melting; snows fall later and vanish sooner; summer’s sun is hotter and more prolonged....
...From the comfort of this inviting base camp and the remote Apusiaajik wilderness hut, guests will explore frozen fjords, summit-to-sea descents and glaciers gilded by the midnight sun with the help of boats...
...The company accused the union of “tortious destruction” of its property, alleging the workers aimed to cost it money....
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