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When You Live in the Swiss Alps, You Can Paraglide to Work
77 views / 0 likes - addedNestled in the Swiss Alps, the geography and climate make it possible to paraglide all year long in Vercorin. Which is why the tiny village in Switzerland is known as a paragliders paradise. Some people even commute to work attached to their gliders. We t
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Making Gruyre in the Swiss Alps for Centuries
338 views / 0 likes - addedAlexandre Muriths family has been making gruyre dalpage in Switzerland for five generations, and there is an art to producing this cheese with a hard texture and no holes. While regular gruyre is made year-round, gruyre dalpage is only made from May throu
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Ride a Wooden Bike Down the Swiss Alps
523 views / 0 likes - addedSkiing and sledding down a mountain? Amateur hour. Try rolling through on a wooden bike. Say hello to the Velogemel, a snow bike local to the Swiss town of Grindelwald. Named for the Swiss words for bike (“velo”) and sled (“gemel”), the mighty Velogemel a
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White-tailed eagle flies over Paris from top of Eiffel Tower
786 views / 3 likes - addedOn September 28th 2014, for the first time ever, a white-tailed eagle flew over the streets of Paris, soaring from the very top of the Eiffel Tower to the Trocadero Gardens. The white-tailed eagle has been extinct in France for over 50 years, and so to ce
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There's a growing threat in the mountains thanks to climate change: glacial lake outburst floods
409 views / 1 likes - addedAs the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning. Unsuspecting communities lying in the flood path c
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Braving The World's Longest Downhill Bike Race
699 views / 0 likes - addedOnce a year, the best downhill mountain bike riders gather high in the French Alps for a race know as Megavalanche. It's a madcap 18-mile race down the side of a mountain. En route, riders pass through alpine meadows, boulders, snow and even glaciers with
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Sesame Street: Mountain Climbers | Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
638 views / 0 likes - addedBert and Ernie meet Bert's favorite story book character, Heidi the Heroine of the Alps, while mountain climbing! When her goat falls into danger Bert comes to the rescue with a - coo coo quack clock? Will Bert become the hero for his favorite storybook h
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How 4 Adrenaline Seekers Find Fun
686 views / 0 likes - addedExperience an adrenaline rushand some pretty wild hallucinationswithout leaving the comfort of your home. Were tagging along with some of the worlds most adventurous risk takers as they bomb down the French Alps and explore untouched paths in the North Po
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How One Man Flies Hundreds of Miles Using Balloons
276 views / 0 likes - addedRemember when Carl tied all those balloons to his house in the Pixar movie Up and flew? Jonathan Trappe does that in real life. He attaches helium balloons to office chairs, gondolas, boats, even little houses, and he goes flying. Trappe has crossed the E
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The Man Who Planted Trees
401 views / 0 likes - addedThe Man Who Planted Trees (French title L'homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met, and The Man Who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness, is an allegorical tale by French
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Markus Eder's The Ultimate Run - The Most Insane Ski Run Ever Imagined
206 views / 0 likes - addedWatch the exclusive behind the scenes on Red Bull TV https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/the-ultimate-run-s1-e2 “Sometimes my mind goes kind of crazy about skiing and I ask myself, what if...?” - Markus Eder What if you could link every po
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Art Day! | SciShow Kids Compilation
195 views / 0 likes - addedSqueaks and Jessi are spending the day making art and revisiting some videos to help them remember all the different ways they can do it!Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon:
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The Swiss Art of Papercutting
360 views / 0 likes - addedIts amazing what Anne Rosat can do with a pair of scissors. This 83-year-old artist has been depicting life in the Swiss Alps through the folk art known as papercutting for 50 years. Using scissors, paper, tweezers and glue, she crafts intricate, colorful
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This Swiss Restaurant Is Built Into the Side of a Mountain
463 views / 0 likes - addedThis restaurant in Weissbad, Switzerland, is remote, to say the least. Perched on the side of a mountain in the Swiss Alps, its at an elevation of about 5,000 feet above ground level. Even if you take a cable car, youve got to hike steep terrain at least
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Swim Up Close With Elephants In This Pool
711 views / 0 likes - addedAt the Mhondoro Safari Lodge & Villa in South Africa, the outdoor pools are near a busy watering hole where wildlife often gather. The pools are filled with saline as opposed to chlorine, since elephants come to drink out of them almost every day. The fiv
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Inside Italy's $1 Billion Marble Mountains
460 views / 0 likes - addedA slab of Carrara marble can cost up to $400 per square meter. The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high. The Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any othe
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Why Is There a Scottish Village In Italy?
31 views / 0 likes - addedThe Italian Alps, home to countless quintessential Italian villagesand one not-so traditional. Welcome to Gurro, the Scottish village in Italy.So what actually makes this village Scottish? Legend has it that the population descended from Scottish soldiers
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Inside The World's Largest Particle Accelerator
518 views / 0 likes - addedThe Large Hadron Collider is a 27 kilometer atom smasher! How does it work and what can it tell us about the make-up of our universe? A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic - http://bit.ly/2babUEI Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter H
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Meet BMW Electric Wingsuit - the future of individual flying is now
196 views / 0 likes - addedThis is the BMW electric wingsuit 2021. BMW Group will present the first electric drive system for a wingsuit with which the centuries-old dream of flying can be realised in a completely novel way. The innovative drive module and the likewise entirely new
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