Climbing higher in search of the last unspoilt natural spots.
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Standing at the top of a mountain is uplifting. Positioned up high, close to the clouds, with the valley appearing tiny and far, far below.
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Short news from Canada.
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Short news from Peru.
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Short news from Spain.
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Short news from Morocco.
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Short news from Uzbekistan.
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Short news from Japan.
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Seen from the northwest coast of Spain, the Illa de San Simón looks like the graceful guardian of the bay of Vigo.
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Gambia, like many West African countries, is blessed with crocodiles. What is unique, however, is how these reptiles are respected and appreciated.
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In the past, Koreans were very poor, and many babies did not make it to their first birthday due to illness or famine. That is why this event is marked with a lavish celebration.
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Burns night is a big thing. You don't think about it when you're growing up but it's actually really nice that this national, specifically Scottish thing is a celebration of a writer, a very humanist and unusual writer.
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In Uttar Pradesh right now we are talking about why the government of the Indian People's Party (BJP) is giving new names to big stations and cities.
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I grew up as though I was an extra in the film, Anna and the King of Siam: Among royalty in Phnom Penh in the 1950s and ‘60s. My father led the orchestra there. Since my birth, I had travelled with him because he wanted me to become a musician. If he didn’t take me, and I was forced to stay behind with my mother, I would dig a hole, get into it and cry for my father as though my life depended on it.
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The Villa Bergbo (in English “mountain nest”) was built in the small mountain town of Kauniainen in 1953. Kauniainen (known as Grankulla in Swedish) is a small town, 16 kilometres west of Helsinki with 9,800 inhabitants, around half of whom are Finnish-Swedish.
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Stories the mountains tell us: Walking in Friuli, northeastern Italy.
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How did Mount Everest form, why do mountains grow and where would humankind be without them? An interview with the geologist Gillian Foulger.
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An estimated 900 million people live in the mountains, worldwide. What connects them? What separates them?
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How a young man in northeast India is reigniting curiosity about the cultural wisdom of his ancestors.
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Indian and Pakistani troops have been facing off on top of a glacier for 30 years.
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To locals, the Sicilian mountain Etna both gives life, and – sometimes – takes it away.
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The lives of the Csango people in the east Carpathian mountains are hard. But there’s much to discover when you just listen to their stories.
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The impact of melting ice on the earth’s water supplies.
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How coal mining is beheading the Appalachian Mountains and devastating a region.
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In the Peruvian city of La Rinconada, known for its altitude and its gold, many come to seek their fortune.
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Booming tourist centres and abandoned valleys: How mountain culture is disappearing from the heart of Europe.
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In conversation with doctor Ned Gilbert-Kawai, who researches altitude sickness, among other health issues, in extreme conditions.
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Weinberger, a collector of found stories, has written an essay about winds and mountains.
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What Mount Ararat means to the people of Armenia.
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Why the Georgian mountains are so important to the Georgian people.
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Why are people in flat countries magnetised to the mountains? An interview with the writer Will Self.
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For Japan’s Yamabushi monks, the mountains are a place for meditation and self-reflection. One of them explains.
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The first Argentinian clinic that uses a combination of conventional medicine and traditional healing will open this year in Patagonia. Patients will be treated with the power of fire, herbs and even regular pills.
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Historic Sulukule was the first neighbourhood in Istanbul to fall victim to the Turkish construction boom.
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How Britain's cultural scene is squirming at the prospect of Brexit.
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There are only few things that impact our understanding of identity and belonging as much as food. But what do the dishes we choose, and the dishes we refuse, say about us?
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How artists are helping to keep the peace at the watery border between Slovakia and Hungary.
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Climate change has a particular impact on developing island nations like Mauritius.
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If there is going to be a revolution brought about by AI, then it will take place in the every-day. Technologies that use AI are already part of our lives.
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I am often asked for advice by people putting on events: Which writer from the Islamic world can we invite to read here? Who could we give a prize or a scholarship? It’s not hard to suggest suitable names.
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In her book, “The Future is History”, author Masha Gessen shows us an oppressive vision of Russia, a country that has been unable to reclaim its soul after the end of the Soviet Union. Her semi-factual novel, based on various interviews and reports, tells the personal tales of three generations and at the same time acts as a pyscho-social analysis of the Soviet legacy.
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What does it mean to be seen as a stranger in your own country? In two novels, the authors John Okada and Min Jin Lee answer that question in diverse and fascinating ways.
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In his novel "The Overstory," shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Richard Powers interweaves his characters like roots on a forest floor - and joins them to fight for the rights of trees.
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Authors Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore describe how we arrived in the ‘Capitalocene’ era – and how we can leave it too.
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