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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. – Edgar Watson HoweRate it:
> Jan 25( Reuters) - Switzerlands Loic Meillard won the mens World Cup giant slalom under lights in Schladming on Wednesday, with fellow countryman Gino Caviezel second fastest down the foggy slopes in the Austrian Alps.Meillard finished 0.59 of a second faster than Caviezel, while Marco Schwarz from Austria came third, 0.81 of a second after Meillard.It was pretty good. It was difficult to get in a rhythm with yesterday and the late finish. I felt good, I like the snow, and I like that slope. So, it was cool. – Switzerlands Loic MeillardRate it:
I have always been drawn to atypical landscapes, beautiful areas, places at altitude. It’s a small world – the world of people who do this work in these regions – so another cook told the station’s director about me. Working at one place can open new doors, and that’s how I got from the Alps to Antarctica. – Thomas DuconseilleRate it:
I was battling with my short play into the greens with two hands, I just could n’t get the feel right. I dreaded missing the greens and it was affecting me badly, i made the switch while on the Alps Tour in 2010, just really to try something different. As soon as I did I went on a great run of form and I’ve stuck with it. It’s freed me up and I enjoy my short game again. – Briton Jason PalmerRate it:
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. – James ThurberRate it:
In Poland, where I'm from, we used to have beautiful winters but now it's not the case, we don't even see snow anymore and we have to travel to the Alps, so I think it's a very important cause. – Kasia Zielinska from WarsawRate it:
My kids are going to see a very different scenery in the Alps. – Andreas VieliRate it:
Someone standing on a bus with a microphone and someone riding on a horse with you across the Alps are very different, the first is quite automatable, the second is not. – Carl Benedikt FreyRate it:
The avalanche happened on the northern side of the Dachstein, just under the entry point Rankluft, we mobilized all our staff, but unfortunately there was no happy ending. An avalanche in the Dachstein region of the Austrian Alps killed at least five hikers, authorities said. A separate avalanche hit the southern Carinthia region around noon, killing a 33-year-old police officer when a large piece of frozen snow struck him during an Alpine training exercise. The officer suffered such serious injuries that he died at the scene of the accident, Austrias Interior Ministry said in a statement. – Heribert EislRate it:
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. – Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:
We will see on each journey what the energy consumption will be depending on the geography and topology, with an electric battery, instead of carrying merchandise around you are carrying around the battery. You have a 200 km range, which you can use for a city, but you cannot use it for the Alps. – Rainer DeutschmannRate it:
When I think of Swiss type, I think of the Alps, and since I'm based in Boulder, my Alps are the Rockies. – Steve MattesonRate it:
When we create lounges we always try to think,' What will be the one distinctive factor ? ,' in this lounge it will be the terrace... this beautiful scenery of the Swiss Alps. It's going to be a destination of its own. – Markus BinkertRate it:
Where needed, financial assets have been seized, including real estate, for example flats in the Swiss Alps, i would like to emphasize that investments in real estate can be misused for the purpose of money laundering. – Michael LauberRate it:
With an electric battery, instead of carrying merchandise around you are carrying around the battery. You have a 200 km range, which you can use for a city, but you cannot use it for the Alps. – Rainer DeutschmannRate it:

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

> Jan 25( Reuters) - Switzerlands Loic Meillard won the mens World Cup giant slalom under lights in Schladming on Wednesday, with fellow countryman Gino Caviezel second fastest down the foggy slopes in the Austrian Alps.Meillard finished 0.59 of a second faster than Caviezel, while Marco Schwarz from Austria came third, 0.81 of a second after Meillard.It was pretty good. It was difficult to get in a rhythm with yesterday and the late finish. I felt good, I like the snow, and I like that slope. So, it was cool.

– Switzerlands Loic MeillardRate it:

I have always been drawn to atypical landscapes, beautiful areas, places at altitude. It’s a small world – the world of people who do this work in these regions – so another cook told the station’s director about me. Working at one place can open new doors, and that’s how I got from the Alps to Antarctica.

– Thomas DuconseilleRate it:

I was battling with my short play into the greens with two hands, I just could n’t get the feel right. I dreaded missing the greens and it was affecting me badly, i made the switch while on the Alps Tour in 2010, just really to try something different. As soon as I did I went on a great run of form and I’ve stuck with it. It’s freed me up and I enjoy my short game again.

– Briton Jason PalmerRate it:

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

– James ThurberRate it:

In Poland, where I'm from, we used to have beautiful winters but now it's not the case, we don't even see snow anymore and we have to travel to the Alps, so I think it's a very important cause.

– Kasia Zielinska from WarsawRate it:

My kids are going to see a very different scenery in the Alps.

– Andreas VieliRate it:

Someone standing on a bus with a microphone and someone riding on a horse with you across the Alps are very different, the first is quite automatable, the second is not.

– Carl Benedikt FreyRate it:

The avalanche happened on the northern side of the Dachstein, just under the entry point Rankluft, we mobilized all our staff, but unfortunately there was no happy ending. An avalanche in the Dachstein region of the Austrian Alps killed at least five hikers, authorities said. A separate avalanche hit the southern Carinthia region around noon, killing a 33-year-old police officer when a large piece of frozen snow struck him during an Alpine training exercise. The officer suffered such serious injuries that he died at the scene of the accident, Austrias Interior Ministry said in a statement.

– Heribert EislRate it:

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

– Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:

We will see on each journey what the energy consumption will be depending on the geography and topology, with an electric battery, instead of carrying merchandise around you are carrying around the battery. You have a 200 km range, which you can use for a city, but you cannot use it for the Alps.

– Rainer DeutschmannRate it:

When I think of Swiss type, I think of the Alps, and since I'm based in Boulder, my Alps are the Rockies.

– Steve MattesonRate it:

When we create lounges we always try to think,' What will be the one distinctive factor ? ,' in this lounge it will be the terrace... this beautiful scenery of the Swiss Alps. It's going to be a destination of its own.

– Markus BinkertRate it:

Where needed, financial assets have been seized, including real estate, for example flats in the Swiss Alps, i would like to emphasize that investments in real estate can be misused for the purpose of money laundering.

– Michael LauberRate it:

With an electric battery, instead of carrying merchandise around you are carrying around the battery. You have a 200 km range, which you can use for a city, but you cannot use it for the Alps.

– Rainer DeutschmannRate it:

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