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...The painting suggests the wanderer stands on a remote and lofty peak....
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...Returning home a hero, he dreamt of creating a resort on the plateau 800m above Morzine, even imagining ski runs over the mountains beyond and into Switzerland....
...Ramsay points out Mont Blanc to the south-west, through the saddle of two of the more than 200 Alpine peaks visible from this 2,970m perch....
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...At home Vuong invested in property — his first project was a resort called Vinpearl — and went on to develop everything from office towers and shopping malls to housing projects....
...Far away towards the south were the resorts of Magaluf and S’Arenal — hidden under a pall of sea mist and so far removed from these rugged mountains that they might as well have belonged to another country...
...Approaching Masca, the hills spike into ranks of jagged, verdant peaks, and the trail becomes progressively less lonely....
...-metre peaks draped in forest....
...In 2019, it acquired Peak Resorts, the owner of 17 ski resorts including Hunter Mountain in New York and Mount Snow in Vermont, for roughly $264mn....
...Much of the Alps experienced the same weather, the rain washing away the snow from many lower-altitude resorts, forcing some to shut down completely during one of their peak-season weeks....
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