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Ötzi Reconstruction of Ötzi mummy as shown in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France Pronunciation German pronunciation: [ˈœtsi] ⓘ Born c. 3275 BC near the present village of Feldthurns (Velturno), north of Bolzano, Italy Died c. 3230 BC (aged about 45) Ötztal Alps, near Tisenjoch on the border between Austria and Italy Other names Ötzi the Iceman Similaun Man Man from Tisenjoch Man from ...
Iceman (German: Der Mann aus dem Eis) is a 2017 German-Italian-Austrian adventure drama film written and directed by Felix Randau. [1] It is a fictional story about the life of Ötzi, a natural mummy of a man discovered on 19 September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps.
The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north. The Alps are a crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe that ranges in an 800 km (500 mi) arc (curved line) from east to west and is 200 km (120 mi) in width.
The glaciers of the Swiss Alps cover an area of 1,220 square kilometres (470 sq mi) — 3% of the Swiss territory, representing 44% of the total glaciated area in the Alps i.e. 2,800 square kilometres (1,100 sq mi). The Swiss Alps are situated south of the Swiss Plateau and north of the national border.
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The first bob run and bob race was held in 1890. By 1896, St. Moritz became the first village in the Alps to install electric trams and opened the Palace Hotel. [4] A horse race was held on snow in 1906, and on the frozen lake the following year. The first ski school in Switzerland was established in St. Moritz in 1929. [4]
The Falls Creek Alpine Resort is an alpine ski resort in the Hume region in northeastern Victoria, Australia. It is located in the Alpine National Park in the Victorian Alps , approximately 350 kilometres (220 miles) by road from Melbourne , with the nearest town being Mount Beauty , which is approximately 30 km (20 mi) away.
Five skiers were taken to the hospital after a lift chair collision at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. The incident occurred on Monday, Dec. 23 around 10 a.m. local time ...