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• A Quick Guide to Water Skiing

  
  Ski Snowboarder — Authority: 464
  hen most people think about skiing, they probably think about hitting the slopes in Aspen or somewhere in the Alps, skis gliding quickly down snow-ridden hilltops. But that’s not the only type of skiing there is, and if you live near a lake, you already know this: there’s also water-skiing! Water skiing [...]
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• Interlaken II

  
  Maya Photography - A Day in the Life — Authority: 128
  [IMG: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/4086727918_80938a64c5.jpg][IMG: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2511/4086736320_b80798bb16.jpg][IMG: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4086741656_160c1510ed.jpg][IMG: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/4086782272_503021fa4a.jpg][IMG: ...
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• Alps Defy Global Warming

  
  Luxique Luxury Travel — Authority: 123
  The Alpine ski season has begun earlier than usual thanks to unseasonably heavy snowfalls. Last weekend, skiers and snowboarders enjoyed outstanding conditions for this time of the year. There were significant snowfalls across Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland – some up to 20 inches deep. The Austrian resort ...
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• ALPS Improves Client Reporting and Delivers Enhanced On-line Service to Customers with Netik Information Portal

  
  Hedge Fund Focus — Authority: 103
  LONDON, 9 November: Netik, the global financial data management and reporting vendor, is pleased to announce that ALPS Fund Services, Inc., a leading provider of asset servicing to the investment management industry, has successfully implemented Netik Information Portal to address their internal and external reporting ...
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• Fun in Interlaken

  
  Maya Photography - A Day in the Life — Authority: 128
  We went to Interlaken, Switzerland in the heart of the Swiss Alps one weekend in the summer. We had a wonderful time. We enjoyed the chocolate fondue and watching the paragliders floating out of the sky. I would like to try it someday! The view at breakfast from our B&B.;
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• Swiss Alps welcome winter

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 150
  Wintry sunrise, Rhone valley, canton Valais, Saturday 7 November 2009 Val danniviers, Valais, fresh snow 7 November 2009 Click on images to view larger Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - There is one day every year when you know that winter has arrived: it can’t be defined clearly by a drop in the ...
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• Two Seasons In One by Philippe Sainte-Laudy

  
  Earth Shots - Photo of the Day Contest — Authority: 424
  Two Seasons In One by Philippe Sainte-Laudy Monday, 9th November 2009 EarthShots.org - Photo of the Day Contest Click here for a random photo from the Earth Shots archive! @earthshots - follow Earth Shots on twitter!
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• Holiday on high

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 459
  Trekking steep slopes and refuelling with tasty Michelin star-rated French grub, Matt Dickinson samples the delights of Chamonix Nestled in a beautiful valley in the French Alps and overlooked by majestic Mont Blanc, Chamonix is a wonderful place to go for a bracing, refreshing break. Around 10,000 people are reckoned ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Gourmet skiing in Zermatt

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Lunch neednt mean queueing for spag bol. A gourmet ski guide leads Sam Wollaston on a tour around Zermatt, foodie capital of the Alps Picture this. Youre sitting at a table on a sunny terrace in the Alps. The Matterhorn looms jagged behind you, like a giant slab of parmesan cheese (honestly, it is like parmesan, in ...
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• Skiing: the art of grooming pistes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Learn how to smooth the snow with a course in piste-basher driving in Serre Chevalier The same thing happens every day at 5pm in ski resorts across the world. As we holidaymakers order our first beer of the evening after a "hard day on the slopes", teams of workers begin a nights graft turning the messy, bumpy runs ...
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• Why Munich is an ideal base for your ski trip

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Munich is the perfect base for skiers – take the train to the slopes, then return to for a night on the tiles (in the bathhouse and the bars) Standing on the parapet of Old Peters Tower in the centre of Munich, the Alps seem close enough to touch. It is this proximity to the mountains that makes the Bavarian ...
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• Austrias secret Santas grotto

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Glacier crevasses can be deathtraps for skiers, but a fluke of nature has given us a peek inside one – and into a frozen wonderland For years Ive been spooked by the memory of a friend who, having returned home early from a ski season, sat propped up in our local, nursing a pint with his leg in plaster, beneath ...
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• Beginners course in Morzine

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  A specialist beginners course for young people is the ideal way to learn, and great fun too I have never wanted to go skiing. As a child, it passed me by (too expensive). As an adult, everything about it put me off – I would be cold and wet, I wouldnt be able to do it, I would have to spend a fortune on equipment ...
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• Old boy, new tricks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Ever felt youre grasping for air on your snowboard? A course in the French Alps teaches you all the tricks of the trade Lets be clear about the mountain I had to climb. Except during asthma attacks, I absolutely do not "grab air". As a late starter to snowboarding, I specialise in the kind of stiff, terrified ...
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• To The Matterhorn [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 822
  [Saas-Fee, Switzerland; November 5. Image via Getty ] Australias Torah Jane Bright competes to win the womens half-pipe Snowboarding FIS World Cup final event on November 5, 2009 in Saas-Fee, southern Switzerland. Bright won the event ahead of Chinas Xuetong Cai, second and Frances Sophie Rodriguez, third. AFP ...
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• In the Corner of the World: Queenstown

  
  Gadling — Authority: 686
  Filed under: Oceania , New Zealand Queenstown is a seemingly quaint town that resides in the shadow of the Southern Alps on New Zealands South Island. Walking its streets, one could easily mistake it for Boulder, Colorado. But like the American town that it resembles, Queenstowns quiet appearance belies an ...
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• Luca Boniciolli transports il Buco to the French Alps

  
  Eat. Drink. Memory. — Authority: 126
  Experience a ski adventure in Courchevel, France as il Buco Restaurant in New York City teams with Europes premier private ski guide Luca Boniciolli, to offer travelers a week of skiing within Les Trois Vallées (The Three Valleys) of the French Alps.Guests reside in luxurious accommodations and indulge in meals ...
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• Mt. Blanc Gets a Height Check

  
  REALscience — Authority: 463
  Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps is standing tall — all 4,810.45 metres of it. That’s only 45 centimetres less than when it was last measured four years ago, but three metres above the height French schoolchildren have long been taught. Scientists carried out new measurements in September — and on ...
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• Some other autumn leaves

  
  French Landscapes - Nature and landscape photography — Authority: 98
  Autumn leaves in the Hautes Alpes forest
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