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Very nice.
Planning to go to Chamonix, next year. Got a conference to help pay the way.
Sweet! I've never been to Cham. It's funny, all those years I was doing all that climbing, and I never made it to either the Alps or Yosemite. The twin Meccas of the climber. Foolish, really, always thinking I needed to be better to really appreciate them...so I missed them.
...I wanna scoot north and visit Liechtenstein, because who the hell ever goes to Liechtenstein?
Jesus. The guy wants to build a hotel above the tree line on Mt. Washington. Fuck that shit.
The Fight Over New Hampshire's Tallest Mountain
by Annie Ropeik
(NPR)...GOVATSKI: That's actually the area where the hotel would be. You can see how close it would be.
ROPEIK: The hotel is a plan from the Mount Washington Cog Railway, which runs tourist trains up the mountain and owns a narrow strip of land for its tracks. The potential hotel would straddle those tracks in the alpine zone...
...ROPEIK: Outside, dozens of people wait in line for a photo with a pile of rocks marking the summit. And Cog Railway trains chug out of their station, heading down the mountain. I meet Cog owner Wayne Presby at their base station. He says his hotel could boost this rural economy and ease the strain on other overcrowded mountain facilities.
WAYNE PRESBY: I think we're one of the key pieces of the economy for Mount Washington and for tourism in general in the state of New Hampshire.
ROPEIK: Presby would need a special county permit to build his hotel in the alpine zone. But he thinks it'd be worth it. He says people who don't hike up the mountain want to enjoy that environment just as much as hikers do. And he thinks they'll respect it.
PRESBY: People like to visit mountain tops, and not all of them are capable of hiking...
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