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...“We are mostly talking about tourists, or shepherds that were only doing their jobs high up in the mountains,” he told the FT....
...We retreated to a nearby bus shelter so I could wolf down my burger. Which wasn’t very chic....
...And the first programme launches this month at a resort in Ibiza. It’s got a hyperbaric chamber, cryotherapy and IV facilities and literal shamans. It’s like buying a souped-up life coach....
...Members can dive with sharks in the Bahamas, or shadow nomads in the Altai Mountains in Mongolia....
...A recent “find” is the Blue Mountain School in London. I love what this concept space sells and shows. It’s elegant without being snobbish....
...In preparation for January’s annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort, Mr Schwab this week issued a new manifesto....
...Power trip Apart from one week of the year, Davos is a quiet Alpine resort writes Martin Wolf....
...More snow is forecast this weekend. zellamsee-kaprun.com or kitzsteinhorn.at Wolf Creek The best bet in the US now is Wolf Creek in Colorado, which opened on October 13 with 75cm of new snow and 960 acres...
...But though the scenery was glorious, untrammelled by the pylons, buildings and access roads that usually clutter the mountains around a ski resort, Schlutius was right: the snow was hard....
...At the road head at Djilisu, a local dog stood with ears and tail clipped — apparently to reduce purchase by any attacking wolf....
...The Serra’s modest ski resort, the only one in Portugal, won’t cause Zermatt and Jackson Hole to lose any sleep....
...The base area hangs 1.5km high in the Monashee Mountains and offers the only ski-in, ski-out lodging of any of these resorts. There’s even a ski-in, ski-out bowling alley....
...Entire afternoons were spent bellowing puerile adaptations of musical hits, and seeing things that weren’t there: a wolf on its hind legs, a burning police car....
...Vehicles available include Defenders, Wolfs (a military variant) and a Series One Land Rover from 1956....
...What is open is whether the Greeks will devote the next few decades to repaying a mountain of loans that should never have been made....
...Banks have to rely on central banks as lenders of last resort....
...A wolf?...
...Some are basically a house with a spare room, others are high-end resorts in private estates....
...The Natural Park of Fuentes del Narcea, which covers much of the local area, is home to rare fauna including the Iberian wolf and brown bear....
...The practice, in which guests are shown around the pistes and mountain restaurants by a member of staff, has long been included in packages, particularly by British tour companies....
...The first thing Montagne Alternative has going for it is that it’s not a ski resort....
...Why Reno has 300 days of sunshine a year, and 30 ski resorts within half an hour’s drive. There is hiking, horseriding and mountain biking on the 165-mile Tahoe Rim Trail around Lake Tahoe....
...martin.wolf@ft.com This article is subject to a correction and has been amended....
...Inflation should erode peripheral nations’ debt mountains, provided they were promptly redenominated in the new domestic currencies....
...Similarly, it was easy for a country such as Italy to refinance its debt mountain on attractive terms....
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