The job was 90 per cent completed by the 30 or so volunteers who worked their way through the stands like mountain climbers on the Matterhorn. |
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He has climbed the fearsome Matterhorn and is quietly confident that the trip to France in July will end in success. |
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European newspapers published denunciatory editorials by writers who had never set foot on any mountain, let alone the Matterhorn. |
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Standing solidly at the foot of the renowned north face of the Matterhorn, Stafel is a terminal moraine of the Z'Mutt glacier. |
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The Matterhorn towers beyond a railway as it ascends toward Gornergrat. |
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Fortunately his girth prevents him from even thinking about scaling the bookcase, so the back of the futon is about as much of a Matterhorn as he can manage. |
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From Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn, this trail joins the 2 capitals of skiing and alpinism. |
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They are all 17, their A-level exams this summer loom like a nasty, scholastic Matterhorn, but in this half-term break they are a law unto themselves. |
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Under that plump moon and the glowering gaze of the Matterhorn, we understood why the Swiss feel an almost mystical sense of oneness with the pile of rock. |
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Tobler created the shape to resemble the Matterhorn mountain, pictured on the packaging. |
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On the Alps, near to the Matterhorn, Zwirbel meets a goat which grumbles about the meager herbs which she must find in the slopes. |
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The Swiss ski resort of Zermatt gets even more attention than usual as it celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. |
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And though he may not have been the first to climb the Matterhorn, he seems to have climbed it best. |
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Icons such as the Matterhorn and the Schweizerkreuz symbolize typical Swiss values like tradition, naturalness and quality. |
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Unlimited possibilities for ski touring around the Matterhorn and the other magnificent four thousand metre peaks. |
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Here, admirers of good architecture are treated to a special experience, as are Matterhorn fans. |
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On peak days, visitor numbers in the Matterhorn ski paradise average 25,000 in the winter, while over 6000 uphill trips are sold in the summer. |
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The MCT Matterhorn was the first ocean-going ship from a foreign port to berth in the Port of Québec in the New Year. |
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Summer skiing on the eternal snows below the Matterhorn, at altitudes of between 2,900 and 3,900 metres. |
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The Matterhorn, behind the village of Zermatt, is probably Switzerland's most famous mountain. |
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Matterhorn is its German name: it is known in French as Mont Cervin, and in Italian as Monte Cervino. |
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As I approached the summit of the Matterhorn Peak last week, I discovered the same sense of concentration. |
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Recognition is showering down now on Marlantes and Matterhorn, his 592-page debut. |
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The climactic assault on Matterhorn depicts the chaos, randomness, exhilaration, and tragedies of combat. |
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On one side is a sheer drop and on the other is a slope with a view that starts in the clouds but opens up to reveal the entire Alpine Valley, including the Matterhorn. |
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The Matterhorn is an example of the ongoing orogeny and shows evidence of great folding. |
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But the Matterhorn has long had a reputation for deadliness half the members of the first group to climb it, in 1865, perished on the descent and it remains one of the world's most dangerous peaks. |
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A cross in the sky could have appeared.... The famous Alpinist Edward Whymper saw a similar effect on the Matterhorn. |
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Usually invited to perform are the Yodel Choir Matterhorn, the danc group Alpenrose and maybe the Thalmanns, hus band and wife, who respectively play the Schwitzerörgel and the alphorn. |
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Matterhorn is simplifying their research enormously due to the fact that simulations with different parameters can run simultaneously on a cluster. |
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The Matterhorn complex is built on a Linux Cluster architecture: many, densely packed Dual-CPU nodes are interconnected through a very fast network. |
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The excitement after the landslide on the Matterhorn was considerable and it was soon agreed that 2003's hot summer weather was making the ground in the mountains thaw. |
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We hike up the Valcornera coomb, the most desolate part of the Tour of the Matterhorn, in order to reach the Valcornera mountain pass which gives a magnificent view of the lakes near our mountain hut. |
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Valais is in the south-west of Switzerland between Lake Geneva and the Rhône Glacier where breathtaking scenery, from the Dents du Midi mountain range to the Matterhorn, awaits you! |
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The Swiss and Italian governments are planning to redraw parts of the border in the Alpine region, including the area around the Matterhorn mountain which will still straddle the two countries. |
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He blitzed his way in 17 hours through all the north face routes of the three peaks of Lavaredo and climbed the Matterhorn, Piz Badile, and the north face of the Eiger within only six days. |
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To get us used to the rope and crampon work essential on glaciers, John chose to ascend the Petite Fourche, a modest peak in the massif with striking views of the Eiger and the Matterhorn. |
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In honor of Switzerland's victory in the America's Cup, Disneyland should consider going with yachts instead of bobsleds on its Matterhorn. |
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Matterhorn deserves the burgeoning attention and wide readership. |
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The Matterhorn in the European Alps is an example of such a peak. |
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A second feature is the Matterhorn of inflation that dominates the scene. The average postwar recession showed a 1.4 per cent decline in industrial wholesale prices. |
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One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it. |
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Our canton is not graced with a Matterhorn, but the Jura has fantastic fossils and a complete skeleton of a Plateosaurus in the Dinosaur Museum in Frick. |
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Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. |
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That year he published a long philosophical poem, The Spirit of the Matterhorn, which he had written in Zermatt in 1873 in an attempt to articulate his secularist views. |
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