And see our gloom there and his daughter tamara are on their way to their refuge. And they can only get to it in a pinch collar and all terrain military vehicle. Its not unusual for there still to be this much snow at over two thousand three hundred meters in late may its the start of the season for tamara and her father. The family look after the lots fawns cross refuge. To do that they leave their home in the valley for five months and move up to the mountain. Thus after my little hill to sign the being back here for the first time after the long winter is a very nice feeling its like coming home when you enter the high. For the first time. It has its own special smell here weve been here for sixteen years now i mean. When youre out here you think because i grew up here and this is where my love of the mountains was born. Its a summer a jury in which tomorrow will experience a big adventure. And she had longer isnt just a hot war hes also a sacristan lets once crosses the highest altitude pilgrimage site in south to have all of this figure of jesus is part of the pilgrims trail that leads to the check. Having. Them in return seems to me like youre closer to heaven here we were raised that way that faith means something to me i think people have to believe in Something Like hopi looks down at me a little when i go up and down here and shout and everyone can use a Guardian Angel should sing a human oh. Yeah that sounds terrible is italys northernmost province the lats phones cross is situated high above the isaak valley which stretches from the prana past a bald santa and is one of the most important links between northern and southern europe. Germans and austrians the brand of pass has always been the gateway to the south in the one nine hundred sixty s. The roots still led along the road over the pass. Cars lined up at the border customs post beyond it their First Capital you know it was waiting a dream of it. Today the brand is the most used pass in the alps more than twelve million vehicles cross it every year. To help solve the problem of noise and emissions transport has to be shifted to rail. Thats why the brand a base tunnel is under construction. Look up runs the building site on the south carolinian or italian side the tunnel would be sixty four kilometers long the longest underground railway line in the world. For the moment. But i meant that one sacrifice one of the most dangerous moments is always when we work with explosives. We blast a lot. Weve used six hundred fifty kilograms of explosives so far its particularly risky when we attach the loads if one fuse were to trigger that would be a disaster. But at this last. Look up his team are currently working on a tricky section of the perry adriatic sea its the most distinct geological fault in the alps formed when european and african tectonic plates collided. Crossing the perry a dramatic scene is very tricky this fault line has never been crossed in tunnel construction if you go toss it. And. The rock is very unpredictable and very brittle in places thats why we have to work with great precision and i said among. So many more than one hundred sticks of dynamite are needed to blast two to four metres of rock. The tunnel is set to open for Rail Transport in twenty twenty six the costs have been estimated ten billion euros the tunnels construction is politically controversial its an important Infrastructure Project say proponents but critics say its a black hole sucking up billions. Looka has overseen many explosions but then never routine the preparations last several hours the fuse lines are connected last. Seen the point im going to accuse since were in a closed space theres a big pressure wave the whole mountain shakes as does the ground and youth your feet will convey the it feels like a major earthquake and at that all. The lights phones crosses one of the loveliest vantage points in the dollar minds the season has begun for the longest family. Which breakfast is sacred to them tamara her mother margaret her father hans yog her sister catalina and kitchen hand colorado. Its the only time of day for us where we can ask ben time with each other for half an hour thats why were firm with the guests and tell them breakfast is only served from eight this is our have allison the hive is down there. Its cold as in most of the refuges in the alps hikers can spend the night here in addition to being fed and watered. The family has plenty to do before the first guests arrive at noon. They prepare the classic alpine hunt dishes especially the fresh bacon dumplings. Just the thought of the motivates many a hiker to make their way up the mountain. Imagine their disappointment if the dumplings werent on the menu the longest will be preparing falcons of them over the coming months and. Even as a teenager tamara spent every summer in the heart helping her parents. And millions from your family its really important to me not many have such a good family relationship as we do most of the time were up here with each other sometimes its tough because we say much more than we should and ways that are gentle he may have thought. We get really direct with each other so so i think this back. To maras father was a successful ski mountain ear and he worked as a truck driver it was his idea to take over the hot. Only if i dont have to cook his wife said thats why tamaras father is in the kitchen while the mother serves as a. Kitchen hand corrado from naples assist them. With. Some hikers come for the shredded pancake or. Others for the magnificent view accompanying them well. The government yeah i think see this beautiful panorama every day in a new way really affects one it triggers something in us and i know how people always tell us we have the best place to work but its quite tough for me because i get no time to myself its a nice place to work but when you go out in the morning and you see the lovely weather youd rather climb up the mountain than work that you lowest cell get back in and i thought with. You. Its particularly lovely when theres an inversion and the dollar might show theyre very spectacular side. Tamara calls them her playground her father took her into the mountains when she was a child at fifteen she decided shed climb an eight thousand me to pick one day would. Be fairly thin the bathroom so good but i feel so at home in the mountains i havent more so than anywhere else so some feel claustrophobic here but i enjoy it because there arent so many people and youve got time to let your mind i wonder if theyre going on if god dont divide matters like. Tamara loves extremes she won ski mountaineering competitions. She has participated in trans alpine races and now shes carving out a career for herself as a mountain area. She climbed her first eight thousand me to peak when she was twenty three lots of. She now has a manager and sponsors. Shes planning to climb k two the second highest mountain on earth after mt everest. Base is starts said the greatest feeling for me i love finding my legs and working on new goals and being exhausted in the like now i love falling into my bed completely shattered thinking that was a great day off i thought i would look back. South iran has dozens of castles and palaces from which the trading routes between the north and south were once controlled. Cost per castle in the eyes and valley is one of the few that still inhabited. Till there is a globe or has spent almost her entire life in the castle her parents grandparents and great grandparents worked as farmers in the service of the counts who lived here she was made and confidant to the last lady of the castle. Off the boards of all men. Living in the castle has disadvantages to. You cant heat it like a flat families but when youve grown up this way you dont miss those kinds of comfort i dont need them but i dont assault. The kitchen doesnt even have running water. Its one hundred four bit there was six of us siblings and the other five got married and i didnt because i loved the castle too much i never wanted to leave at some point my parents got older and were dependent on me so i stayed on and ive stayed ever since. The history of the castle goes back to the twelfth century for a long time it was the ancestral home of the council vulcan she died. In the late one nine hundred sixty s. The family ran out of money and had to sell the place its now and by south tills councils association. To laze a globe or gives visitors guided tours in the summer but things are quiet or in the winter time. This is one lonely at times but i can always go down into the town if i want some company but soon i come back to my animals i never stay away for long. She looks after the animals mainly on her own only a brother comes by to lend a hand so far today is a has turned down all her suitors. Every year on the third saturday in june the black crosses carried up to life forms cross as sacristan has to prepare the service. Countless three sean wish to keep it nice its nice to faith is important to me so cute but im not a big church goer. I dont pray for hours every sunday. Afternoon it almost means more to me to go down there in the evenings signals and check whether the candles are all out yet dance and think about the day for a couple of minutes and see if. That is the procession with the black cross begins in the valley at five in the morning its a good seven hour hike to the church. Of christ. There is the cross was erected here for the first time in around seventeen hundred to ward off bad weather hail it destroyed the harvest for three summers in a row. And. The nation wish to avoid when i talk to the people on the subject of weather always comes up i tell them if they carry the black cross up to me he will fix the weather its always a special moment for me. But it makes this place complete. Once the black cross is back in its place regular service is a held here at lots from scratch. Three. Years radiation souvenirs. I was. Not since the. You do. You see. Every sunday a different priest comes up from the valley. Really you a. Lesson on all rickson in germany was a bishops seat for centuries in the eleventh century the town even hosted a conclave for the papal election its main landmark is the cathedral whose cloistered boasts well preserved frescoes dating from the fifteenth century. This young man is used to posing in front of attractive backdrops know about birchard works as a model he was discovered after he had his picture taken my professional photographer who referred him to a Fashion Agency melanne. One photo shoot follow the next nor but spoke almost no italian at the time let alone english. He grew up in the past saya valley a farming region far from the world of fashion and glamour. When he found that assessed when i got out at milan station for the first time i was amazed at how big and small everything was there i was from the past sire arriving in such a big city was an amazing feeling to be. He just finished his apprenticeship as a joiner and started his first job with a prefab Construction Company at the time working as a model took him from his rural surroundings into the limelight. At caesars or chippy youre covered in dust and dirt the fire because then you enter the world of fashion and everything you wear is clean and beautiful and expensive but it made a big impression on me. But he stuck with wood as a material and all but ertl has dared to do something new and turned it into a business he makes handbags with an exotic wood veneer. He got the idea at a fashion show in milan when he saw shoes with high wooden heels he asked himself why not make handbags out of wood he started working on his idea to see how the wood could be bent without breaking. If i go walking mine and i remember telling my coworker i was going to make bags out of wood he told me i was crazy they be much too heavy and it wasnt possible a great moment was when my boss called me and asked me how i was able to bend the wood like that is installed i felt really proud because he had taught me and now he was asking me questions thats my. He has a template for every model at four to six hundred grams his bags are no heavier than conventional non wooden bags his innovative spirit is paid off he never would have had this success in the traditional business joiners a two a penny and southfield. He even learned to sew for his bags he mainly sells them online and at trade fairs. If you ask for more men but it was so performance i was convinced from the outset that it would work but i didnt think it would be this hard but it is one thing to bring a product to market that already exists so that people know how it works but it is something nobody knows is tough and then you need patience. And a c. E. O. And good marketing norbit earth chose tossed burke castle as the backdrop for his sales photos. Oh yeah. Oh yeah sighed guy you. Tell theres a globe or makes an exception and allows him to use the consul. Since he only has a small budget norbit has enlisted some of his friends if a fellow join it takes good pictures while his headdress opposes the model. Started looking more at bags than at women i look how theyre made how theyve been sewn together i look at the details its funny that women make my head turn for their bags now. So far his daughter is less interested in fashion. Knowledge ertl is branching out into travel bags and suitcases. The valid data where the longer family lives during the winter. Tomorrow is packing for her planned expedition shell be away from home for two months shes heading off to k two in pakistan among mountaineers its considered more challenging than mount everest. I had an offer in winter but i wasnt interested at the time because i thought it was too dangerous now im really looking forward to it im prepared mentally for the mountain thats important otherwise i shouldnt be doing this by so im stuck in a nice and back yard. He didnt solve the part of the equipment they could help prevent her feet from getting frostbitten tomorrow well use the camera on a helmet to keep a video diary. And the Satellite Phone will enable her to call for help in an emergency and keep in touch with her family during the expedition. Only eleven women have ever reached the summit of k two eighty mountaineers and died in the attempt. Issue i know that chances are fifty fifty that i wont come back im completely aware that with. Everyone in the last funds cross refuge will follow her progress with concern. Thats once crosses one of around nine thousand refugees in south tirol there typically in prominent locations the highest in more than three thousand meters many were built more than a century ago when the mountains began to open up to the outside world. The age of about hans is in such a state of disrepair that it will have to be completely rebuilt. But a few. Special thing is that the building site has to be conquered a new every time. I have to climb for a good hour to get to it thats an hour during which i think of this building site as a lover i have to find every day if you. Go there is the architect matteo scan your comes here for a meeting every wednesday he was born in a tree asked. I grew up in south tirol and studied architecture in venice and at harvard university. These designs have won awards but hes never carried out a project of more than two thousand five hundred meters. The new adult heart has to be built in one summer snow dictates the schedule. His design was chosen in a competition his idea that the new build shouldnt wipe away the evidence of the old heart was particularly convincing. Because of the lovely thing is that two valleys focus their strength and energy on the heart. Of this small existing building sits like a diamond on the ridge between the two valleys. My idea was to preserve this treasure and to build the new heart around it like a cross. For innkeeper michel vi steiner the construction work means stress thats because the old heart will stay open throughout and he also has to cook for the builders. On what yet so far. Was almost about how. It was important to him that architect matto scan your incorporated him into the design and took the practicalities into account. The weisz dyna family has run the middle of out hut for more than forty years. And yet. This can an unmanaged every board tells a story the whole building creaks when you walk around in it someone who has to go to the loo in the middle of the night on the top floor can wake everybody up to. The dining room has become too small the workmen are here from monday to saturday they all come. From the same village and get along well. Runs an Architectural Office together with his wife. During the hot competition a debate about the architectural style of new refugees broke out in south yarra. Many criticize the designs for being too futuristic they saw the traditional style as under threat. Not least the romantic aura of the old hearts the architects viewed Energy Efficiency is an important criterion the connection between functionality and ecology. Building in the mountains is different from building in the valley. The factual his aim your mortal sin ph it i have a simple example because i remember when i was little and i was packing a rucksack before going out into the mountain as you see on air you had to opt for the minimum so you laid everything out on the table with a pull over a pair of socks gloves two eggs and above chocolate as little as possible in you mean him up a c. B. Let thats true in architecture too because i was out on the its not about whether youre wearing later hosen and a traditional cardigan but its about whats essential you mean you more. The a large hunt is the first new construction of a refuge in the south to really and mountains others are to follow in the coming years scan yall is aware that the entire province is watching and discussing his work. With them we really. Appreciate we know theyre probably their mouth but you know it. The newbuild lets not turn away from tradition the wooden shingles recall the facade of the old heart. Of newport than that its you want to get out of. The most important thing is to create a dialogue with a tradition that. If you want to continue the tradition you have to communicate with it and caught up a lot of what i think weve managed with this project but weve also managed to change and develop it. In fifty or one hundred years this will be a really traditional building that and then someone else will develop this tradition and further that it was that of course that the story. Was. That the summer longer has returned from pakistan shes the first woman from south to roll to climb k two have family a proud im relieved that everything went well its time to celebrate and tell stories. They are in and out in the uk he also. Said. That having survived and mountain is absolutely huge and powerful i sense something sinister and scary its a colossus that makes you wonder where the way up could be it seems almost impossible. To mark climbed k two without oxygen tanks and without porters. Saying. This is its cold and wet and windy its torture i wouldnt wish this on my enemies i am fine and. I hope it was a good decision to come up here. Leyden suffering is always the search for limits really i want to find how far i can go what more i can do you know if i manage this its so satisfying and one of the best feelings in the world i once had a chance to get fantasy should be a con. Thanks position partner for the climb was klaus global also from south youre on. Your soapbox a bunch of friendship on the mountain is one of the most important things because when youre on your own you can get in trouble if things arent going so well for you you know the other person wont abandon you know if you stick together all the way its a great feeling when youre together day and night its more than being husband and wife. For instance there. Are. Actors from a very well off its mark but after experience so be it. For me since the expertise for these expeditions are a way to grow i go there to get to know myself better so i can do that so well here because im flooded with stimulants so fun so for invites it will float up and that makes it harder to find myself so to me a. So were at seven thousand five hundred eighty three meters its our first proper view of the summit. To all of us think what. Ive rarely been this fascinated by a mountain. Wow. But good finish the summit is the name of a dream that you have and it has a brutal appeal and an immense attraction when i see that the weather is right and that my bodys in good shape and my heads in the right place then i want to get up a. Bit for cuts im on the summit of k two its overwhelming. To keep. Me i think i found myself again before. My. A ninety ninety one south to load was in headlines around the world. It was a sensation especially for scientists like edouard a garter vigor the discovery of a mummy in the alps this body nicknamed see after the location has now found a home in the museum of archaeology and vault santa the provincial capital of south yarra. Pathologist edouard it got if you will is responsible for preserving the mummy it was a diplomatic bone of contention for some time at first the mummy was thought to have been discovered on austrian soil it wasnt until seven years later after the border was surveyed again that urgency was returned to italian south to avoid. Tunisia was to mention for decent i thought as these of course it was known at the time that this mummy was an archaeological anthropological one of a kind specimen of immeasurable value for humanity off. And then a rural pathologist is told you are singlehandedly personally responsible for this mummy and of course you worry about what could go wrong see it and then does she feel like lets get to the then suppose the temperature fails and the mummy starts rotting them of course a human. In a refrigerated room the scientists of imitated the conditions of the glacier where he lay for more than five thousand years the mummy is covered in a very thin layer of ice it has to be freshened up every three months with sterile water to preserve the tissue. I got if you will develop this method of. Of ation especially for if. Two thousand five thousand years isnt very much in terms of the entire evolution of humanity part for us as individuals thats a very long time here we have a fellow human in outstanding state of preservation which is very exciting to helping. The scientists keep on covering new details. Beards tooth decay lactose intolerance or helicobacter the list of medical complaints he had is long but the mystery surrounding his tattoos remains unsolved. Recent us demands he a few we know he walked around the mountains a lot. Because his uncle joins our warner hes had problems with his knee his hips are worn as a movie about his it seems he said its possible that these tatoos had a therapeutic goal to lessen his pain and. This is what hes believed to have looked like he was around fifty years old one meter sixty tall weighed fifty kilos fit. Has brought a Million People through the museum doors and it continues to be a huge attraction. Also its refused to sort this. Movie and always trigger emotions in people for one thing theres the interest in who am i where do i come from we want to know if this mummy is like a line leading back to our roots. And you can kind of bias it im like foggy i mean its a magical thinking at the same time the something strange about mummies get in one ear open to see if the school year is attracted by this bizarre element this knife edge between a safe existence and the fear of water whitehurst the existence of the angst and thats fascinating of course thats what. Betsy lies in his refrigerated room as if it were a winters day in southfield on. During the cold season the eyes like valley seems almost in chanted. But the winter has a harsh side too. Snow and storms often arrive by the end of the time. Its high time for tomorrow longer and have family to close the last fronts cross refuge the parents of worked almost every day for five months then looking forward to their break even though it will take them a while to get used to the hustle and bustle of the valley again its a life between the mountains and the valley goodbyes and reunions followed the rhythm of the seasons. Up on side this is fine randy familiar with on the one hand its nice when a family can return home again really maybe when its not so stressful and we can enjoy family life properly and get on side and have more time for each other on the other hand we missed the place some additional dogo movements and the first year we had our last day in the hut i looked out at the dolomites and almost cry because i loved it so much up there i was sad to leave the smallest locket do not take. Look. A little bumpy moments that might be sold. Its all about the stanleys instantly. Its all about George Chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us from indian sponsored by distinctive instagram murders. G w stories on topics each week on instagram. 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Was a prominent leader of ethnic serbs his death has triggered fears of renewed tensions between kosovo and serbia well talk to someone who knew him also coming up