Tag: mountain
Influencers, apps, GPS tracks: About the digitalization of mountain sports – travel
School classes in need, GPS tracks in the fall area and insensitive influencers: the smartphone, oh no, the whole digitalization is often seen as a danger for hikers and alpine…
Challenge, “YouTube video”, vocation… The rise of the influencer creates controversies and debates
“Whether it is a failure or a success, whatever happens, see you in 2024, at the foot of Mount Everest. » On February 24, 2023, Inoxtag – real name Inès…
Always at the Watzmann: Mountain rescue teams have to go on winter missions twice – Bavaria
Did the 19-year-old tourist from Finland notice what happened just three days after his daring trip to the Watzmann? If it hadn’t already become clear to him on Easter Sunday…
Influencers, jacuzzi and open bar: Has Everest become Dubai?
On social networks, alongside photos of heavenly beaches and trendy places, a new destination has also found a place among influencers’ posts: Everest. 1.3 million posts on Instagram, 123k posts…
Is mountain biking restricted in the forest?
As of: March 31, 2024 3:20 p.m The new Federal Forest Act stipulates that riding bicycles in the forest should only be permitted on roads and suitable paths. This is…
“For some small glaciers, life expectancy is less than ten years”
He focused on studying “small glaciers”, those located in the bottoms of glacial valleys in the Alps and which are “almost unknown to everyone”. Frédéric Mathieu has just launched a…
Diana Ross turns 80: No mountain was high enough – culture
Things really should have turned out differently. In the melancholy month of November of the pandemic year 2021, a new single from Diana Ross suddenly appeared. The chorus summed up…
United Nations: Mountain of electronic waste is growing rapidly – knowledge
Imagine: 40-ton trucks lined up one after the other, the line stretching all the way around the equator. And all vehicles are loaded to the brim with laptops, refrigerators, smartphones…
Cycling: Tour of Catalonia: Pogacar wins mountain finish
Cycling Tour of Catalonia: Pogacar wins mountain finish Won the second stage of the Tour of Catalonia: Tadej Pogacar. photo © Roth/dpa Tadej Pogacar has once again outpaced the competition.…
The death of five hikers causes great emotion in the canton of Valais
Valais is in mourning. Emotions were high Monday evening in this Swiss canton, after the discovery of the bodies of five of the six ski hikers missing since Saturday. The…