For many South Africans, the quiet and calmness that can be found in the water – one of the rare places with few, if any, human-related threats – has been transformational.
Around 150 years ago, the upstate New York village of Saranac Lake became home to people looking for a cure to a highly contagious disease. Today, its healing legacy lives on.
The chalets, collectively known as Edelweiss Village, were built by the Canadian Pacific Railway to provide housing to mountain guides from Switzerland, hired to serve Canadian and international mountaineering tourists in the Canadian Rockies.