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High life | 2 March 2017

Those were the days: when skiing was hard to do and even harder to prepare for

issue 04 March 2017

Gstaad

Back in the good old days a funicular used to take skiers up, bucking all the way and stopping from time to time when the snowdrifts across the track got too deep. We used to wax our skis at every opportunity, deposit them in the baggage car, and ride the outdoor car.
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