Alps

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Instead, he reverted to being the gangly 24-year-old from the Italian Alps hoping to avoid a sunburn.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

"It was a success!" said Domenico Giardini, one of the lead researchers on the project, as he inspected a crack in the rock wall lining a narrow tunnel far below the Swiss Alps.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

He talks about a trip he took one summer to the French Alps doing research with artisan cheese makers.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

In the Pyrenees and the Alps, entire villages would essentially hibernate from the time of the first snow in November until March or April.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell