Alps

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Some mountains in the Alps see thousands of climbers on their summits each day, he added.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

"You imagine mountains, the Alps or something like that, and contrasts so strongly with the architecture of Paris, that it's just very surprising."

From Barron's • May 21, 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

If there was enough of it at times to cover the Alps, then where, pray, was it during times of tranquility, such as now?

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson