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Switzerland & the Alps. Season 4 Episode 407 | 26m 56s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Rudy savors the sights, sounds and tastes of the Swiss Alps. 11/22/2021 | Expires 03/31/2027 | Rating TV-G.
In Switzerland, they are melting at an alarming rate. The country’s glaciers lost 4% of their volume last year, second only to the record-setting 6% lost in 2022.
The Alps have turquoise lakes and green forests. This shows Switzerland’s strong commitment to keeping nature clean. Visitors are amazed by the clean parks and lakesides.
The Transylvanian Alps provide visitors with abundant wildlife, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and quaint villages—without the crowds.
Atop the white-capped Swiss Alps, giant fires blazed skyward. While church bells tolled and golden-tailed rockets sped through the night, gaily lighted boats, like graceful waltzers on a vast ...
It was like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a ...
I learned to respect the power of nature in the shadow of Switzerland’s towering Jungfrau, just south of Interlaken in the Lauterbrunnen Valley.
Two hikers trekking across the Italian Alps on snowshoes were killed when an avalanche crashed down the slope near the border with Switzerland on Sunday, rescue officials said. The avalanche was ...
The month before that, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland revealed the bodies of a frozen couple who went missing 75 years ago. Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife, Francine, were 40 and 37 years old ...