27 Burst results for "Swiss Alps"
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
"swiss alps" Discussed on Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
"I saw the advantages as well as the disadvantages. And I was convinced that I was going to be a writer. That was what I really wanted to be. And I actually wrote, I started writing books at age 5. Wow. I was really, really into that. But, you know, my path was a little circuitous because I was also very interested in people. You know, growing up by cultural, I felt like I didn't really fully fit her in Poland or in America. 100%. And so I became an anthropologist. That was actually my initial life path. I was very interested in the scientific study of culture because I was trying to understand who I was. And where I fit in in the world. I actually studied abroad in Egypt for a couple of years. I learned Arabic. It was very interested in religious traditions. And political history. But I ended up I ended up kind of coming to this crossroads where it became clear that the academic life wasn't what I wanted. And so why not? Well, for a number of reasons. One is because I didn't have the freedom in the academic setting I was in to pursue my project. And that's a whole other story in and of itself. Is that why you ended up in the Swiss Alps? Yeah, yeah, I actually ended up doing something that's very hard to do, which is switching graduate programs. That is a challenge. And maybe we can talk about that on another episode. But I did end up finishing my PhD in the Swiss Alps at this wonderful school. But I was already in business by that time. And you know what it came down to for me is I think I didn't want to just understand the world right about the world. I also wanted to change it. Had this need to participate in projects with other people that were building things. It became a real crucible of responsibility and growth for me. Wow. And what was that graduate, was it a dissertation in a specific topic that you had to switch programs for?
Travel with Rick Steves
"swiss alps" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"And the staggering natural beauty of its glaciers and fjords have been draw for explorers and adventures for generations and now for researchers and tourists as well. Ecologist and conservationist and bar enthusiast Chris Morgan goes to Svalbard once a year to lead an Arctic expedition for polar bears. Chris worked as a wildlife researcher, wilderness guide, and environmental educator now for more than 30 years, and he's traveled to every continent where bears live. Chris joins us now in our studio to give a glimpse into Svalbard in its most iconic inhabitant, the polar bears. Chris, thanks for joining us. Hi, Rick. Great to be here. So first of all, Svalbard. That's basically a Norwegian island halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole, right? Exactly. Top of the world, basically. Half of the world. For someone who's never been there before, just describe it. What kind of world is that? It really does feel like the top of the world in more ways than one when you're up there. It's an icy landscape, you know. So you definitely feel the Arctic. One of my friends a few years ago described it in the best way I've ever heard. He said, if you sliced off the Swiss Alps, placed him in the Arctic Ocean and sprinkled polar bears on them. You'd have Svalbard. Well, it was just in the Alps and it was way up there and I guess you could park a boat about where I was up in Svalbard. Yeah. And it's got I think about a billion years of uninterrupted geological history. So it's literally like this sort of living landscape museum there. And about 60% of it is glaciers. So it's a highly glaciated biggest glacier in Europe is there. So mostly ice, 3000 people, and I guess the economy is what either coal mining and tourism is there fishing, or is it coal mining and tourism? Coal mining and tourism pretty much sums it up. It started with coal mining and then it transitioned quite rapidly to tourism for some of the reasons that you're explaining earlier on. It is a dynamic place where you just you feel this is funny to use the word magnetism, isn't it when you're talking about the Arctic, but it has this magnetism to it where you go once and you want to go back. So I feel lucky I get to go back fairly frequently. But you go back not for the culture, you go back for the nature. Yes. I suppose. Exactly. I mean, I would imagine the commerce if you got 3000 people there is a couple of streets, a couple of hotels. Is there like a gift shop actually? Yes, in fact, there's a whole strip of them now. Because cruise ships are stopping there. They do the limiting some of the sizes of the cruise ships are the smaller ships are preferred because it's less impactful on the wildlife and the environment there. But it has taken it off enough to be its own little industry and to employ size of lumber of people day. So there's indigenous people. There's people who have always lived there and they got in the living room. Not indigenous. There's no indigenous history they're interested in. They're very much missing the sort of Inuit component that we have in North America. Just to give you a sense from a North American perspective of how far north this is and how high up into the Arctic it is, it's about 550 miles, further north than the north coast of Alaska. Now that's that really puts it in it. Because if you go to the north coast of Alaska, that seems pretty pretty desolate. Livable, but just barely. And then you split the distance from there to the North Pole. Yeah. And you've got yourself ice city. Exactly. With polar bears. Yes, and the interesting thing is you're able to access part of the archipelago as far Bard, the eastern side, mostly because of the Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream comes across the Atlantic, heads north, and becomes the Norwegian current that keeps it ice free. Exactly. So you can get in, you can access it a little more easily there. So the east side of the island is usually locked in ice quite a lot longer each year. I understand it's part of Norway, but there's some fine points there where you can actually go to Svalbard and live there or work there or whatever without the same red tape you'd have to go to Norway. I think so. I've heard the same thing. I'm not a 100% sure, but it is a sovereignty of Norway. And I think they have looser regulations for sure. So you get really interesting mix of different nationalities there. There's a lot of people from the Philippines there and there's Thai families there and they've made a life in the north, which is kind of unexpected. It is interesting, isn't it? I talked about the polar bug and apparently that's a desire to go back to the place like Svalbard. What is the polar bug? I think that the Arctic and the polar regions and the animals that are there. Have this magical essence to them. This mystical essence to them, where you can't feel it and sense it and understand it till you've got boots on the ground or boots in a boat on the water. It does, it does feel like something that you don't experience anywhere else. So it has this quality that feels different. It feels magical and mystical and has a drawer that wants you to keep coming back because you might initially land in a place like Svalbard and think oh, it's a barren wasteland, a lot of people think of the Arctic in that way. There's nothing here. Why protect it, why appreciate it, why visit it, you know? But you don't have to spend much more than 24 hours in a place like it to really start to understand it and what unfolds. One of the things I've been swabbed is that it is in the summer, it's a land of perpetual light. It's like a day that is four months long. The sun comes up in April. And doesn't set, not an inch below the horizon until August. So for four months it's bright and sunny usually no blue sky and the midnight sun and you have these long days which throw you off, but it's one of those magical things and it gives you lots of time to explore. And every little thing that you discover whether it's a bear or a walrus or a bird colony, these massive colonies of millions of birds descend on this place every year. There's something that makes you want to find out a little bit more, see a little bit more. And as you discovering things, you realize there's a lot more than meets the eye to a place like this. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Chris Morgan, and he's helping us explore the Arctic outpost and polar bear haven of Svalbard. Halfway between the top of Norway and the North Pole. Chris is the host of the wild with Chris Morgan. It's a podcast about wildlife conservation and the wonders of our wild planet. His website is Chris Morgan wildlife dot org. Now, Chris, you go there once a year just Svalbard to lead a tour. I would imagine you're there generally during that four month long day. Yes, exactly. So you've probably rarely seen. You probably rarely seen darkness in Svalbard, even though you go there every year. That's it. I've never been there in the dark. I've never been there in the dark. I've never had a real night in Svalbard. Now, my experience in the north of Norway is it's a real headache when the sun wakes you up at 4 o'clock in the morning. Yes. You have I blinds and some people take travel, sleeping tablets, you know, and help them through. I bet hotels have good blackout. They really do. They're primed for it. Tell me a little bit more. There's probably basically one community with 3000 people, and that's a springboard for the nature loving that goes on up there. Exactly. Longyearbyen is the name of the town, really the only functioning town there, the science research communities, the still some coal mining communities as well. And the original coal mining communities were Russian actually. But now it's mostly long you begin, and it is this hub for the tourism there, but it's a real operating town as well. It's very colorful, the buildings like in a lot of Arctic towns, the long winter nights are as long as the long summer days, right? So they have these very colorful buildings there that I think are designed to bring a little bit of life and zest to the place. So if you did go in the middle of the winter, you would be like walking around with streetlamps. Exactly. In the middle of the day and the northern lights lighting. And the northern lights. Fiery green spikes of light that go from the horizon. Yes. I have a friend, one of my co guides over there. And he does dog sled trips in the winter under the northern lights in Svalbard. Which would be amazing. I've never experienced it, but
Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"swiss alps" Discussed on Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"Audio feedback. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Apigee. Hi Apigee audience. This is Stephen from Hamburg calling. I like to give a small feedback for episode 5 three 7. And your report about the plane wreckage from 68 crash, which was found in the Swiss Alps on a glacier after it was slowly melting. Well, those things occasionally happen. I recall an incident in 98 where they found the leftovers of a Lufthansa U 52 crashed in 44 and the Austrian alt somewhere in a glacier and the glacier split it out again 98. And while this is now an interesting case, I like to mention the case of the crash of the private operated U 52, which was you might recall it crash in the Swiss Alps. I think two years ago. And there's a very detailed report about the Swiss axonal part. And this U 52 contained parts, I believe, mostly some synonyms in the old BMW radio engine theory but still using on this aircraft. From one of those from one of those glacier findings, apparently in 41, Luftwaffe from the Wehrmacht U 50 two had to do an emergency landing on a glacier in the Swiss Alps, and in 2002, it showed up again a bit breasted perhaps and but some parts very, very intact. And they actually took some parts of the engines, refurbish them and put them back into service again in other aircraft. In other still operating, you 52 aircraft were still using the old ancient beam W engines. Well, it has nothing to do with the way which is excellent as I mentioned, the bridge that happened at two years ago. But it's interesting that after what 6 years sitting in a glacier, they put up the engine parts and we're using it again and for a couple of years back in them. In the background. Okay, that's for me now. Once again, the big thank you for your show. And carry on and to create some Hamburg papi. That's marvelous. Carry on. It's always good to hear from his stuff. Fascinating. Yeah. I mean, I don't understand quite how you can certify an aircraft part for reuse when it's spent 40 years. Yeah, you're sitting in a glacier. These crazy Swiss people. I know. You think there'd be a bit more conservative with a little C and say, well, you know, you can copy it by all means, made out of modern material. But it would be hard to judge. I would think it would actually cost more to get it back into serviceable condition than it would be just to copy and build new yeah, I mean, that picture doesn't look terribly. It doesn't inspire confidence. It does. I don't think I want that in my aircraft. I mean, I do find it fascinating that they found these aircraft that disappeared into a glacier and then reemerged. But you know, should we be using the bits? Yeah, interesting. There you go. All right. Thank you, Stefan. I mean, you're used to this kind of thing, Jeff, aren't you? With airplanes at the age of I thought you were going to say it's because we were a bunch of cowboys. You know that too. The airplane that I fly is what they're no, it's not. It's so crazy. All right. You already have to go back a couple of years. Yeah, I mean, we're talking like most of these things are maybe 20 years old, 15 to 20 years old. And I think the last one was made in 2006. How about the ones before that? How about the mad dog, but you flew before mad dogs were a little bit older, but you know what? I was funny. Oh, not funny, but I think the oldest airplane in our fleet right now are the a three 20s that we are really northwest airlines was operating. And the a three 30s. We have several that are still with northwest registrations on them. And they're very old. Yeah, I'm following them. I'm just going to zip on shut my mouth. For a little bit. Yeah, you should. But you know what? I'm wondering how those a three 30s and a three 40s were. All I love for them got many hours on. Yeah, well. So I think maybe since we're talking about Airbus and Boeing's, Liz, we have several items from feedback. Regarding that. Yeah. Well, I think they're going to be, you're going to probably like them, I would think. Oh, can I crow a bit? Yeah, I think you can. Let's see. Looking forward to trying to find this as a 14 with the one that has a video. Okay, but yeah, I stuck two of them together. Okay. So let's start with 14, the first part from Sam, or blog. I don't know what Sam, do you have a blog? Okay, captain, this is why I'm hooked on your podcast. I just completed episode four 18 as captain Nick suggested. I have no idea that that flight contained a physical crew. Oh, episode 40 two. That was that Airbus thing. We referred him to him. Yeah, we referred him to episode four 18, the plane tail, a three 20. Because he, Sam sent us in the video that he found on his video cassette of the demonstration flight that ended up in a forest. And for some reason, he thought it was like automated or just one pilot, but yeah, there were two pilots. So anyway, he said, I assumed it was operated remotely. No. You have created an excellent podcast with a wonderful, knowledgeable, well balanced and entertaining crew. Well, when did they come on? That's a drinker. You're just like the warmup. Let's just say Sam's a drinker. Oh, he must be. I just thought he was going to start asking for favors at some point. That's the alternative. So anyway, he says, you've created an excellent, I'd like to read that one again, because it's such a wonderful sentence. I am anticipating on reaching the episodes where everyone was introduced to the podcast as I have reached up to episode 79 and down to four 50. Yeah, I think it was around them what, one 50 or so ish? You know, we've looked at this before and I can't. Yeah, somewhere in that one 52, maybe? Yeah, something like that. Anyway, on another note, I've always been partial to Boeing over Airbus aircraft, but after learning more about each, and having the pleasure to ride on both, I have come to learn and appreciate what each has to offer. Oh, okay, that was very, very moderated. Thank you, Sam. Diplomatic, yes. Thank you all again, Sam. And then I threw this one in from
Seek Outside Podcast
"swiss alps" Discussed on Seek Outside Podcast
"Exactly. I like, you know, it's about the adventure. I don't know, I could play some audio tracks right now, son, you don't like it. He who falls in love with the journey. Is much more likely to make it to the destination. Man, you really should be the dose AKA guy. Yeah, you know, that's what sounds good. In the Swiss Alps, some Buddhist monk in the Swiss Alps told me that. That's the most profound thing of my life. So while we should have that on the whiteboard, actually. I don't even think that's the correct quote, I probably fucked it up. But anyway, so anyhow, trip number one, that I would like to go on. Is dude. Now trip number one that I think would be really cool. Would be going here in Colorado and doing like a back country ptarmigan hunt? To where you just hike up, you know, up into the plus 12, 13,000 feet. And you're looking for ptarmigan. Maybe with a bow, because apparently they're pretty, pretty easy to get. So it's shotgun might not be the most sporting thing. But go up there with a bow and just try to hunt again. You raise your hand? Yeah. Raise my hand. I've honestly never heard of ptarmigan. You don't know what a tarmac is? No. Oh, dude, it's like, have you heard of a grouse? Yeah, we saw grass tracks. So you know that grabs we saw. It's like that, but they live above tree line. Interesting. Because we might have seen some actually. Oh, really? Last weekend. Really? Yes. Yeah. They probably would have blended in perfectly with the ground. Kind of like reddish. Yeah. They're essentially grouse, but a little bit different. I thought they were gross. Yeah. But if you saw them above tree line, it was probably its army. Okay. So, but yeah, I don't know.
WGN Radio
"swiss alps" Discussed on WGN Radio
"James Sears at two 30 Russia bans nearly a thousand Americans The Sox beat the Yankees twice in a double header game one three to one game two 5 zero becomes feet Arizona 5 four The Chicago sky wind in Washington 82 73 WGN traffic Nazi Nate accidents out there on our expressways or tolles The doubles World Economic Forum is underway after a gap of nearly two and a half years because of the coronavirus pandemic more than 50 world leaders are gathering at the resort town in the Swiss Alps where they'll focus on issues including climate change and Russia's war on Ukraine Ukrainian president zelensky is set to deliver a virtual speech to the leaders there Meanwhile legendary actor Morgan Freeman is no longer allowed into Russia Mark Mayfield with the story Freeman is one of nearly a thousand Americans that Russia's foreign ministry added to its stop list on Saturday unsurprisingly several members of the Biden administration including President Biden and vice president Harris are on the list Surprisingly the list also includes two late politicians Arizona senator John McCain and defense intelligence agency deputy director Melissa Driscoll They both died in 2018 I'm Mark Lee field A new report claims leaders of the Southern Baptist convention work to cover up sex abuse claims against clergy and investigation carried out by an independent contracting firm found abuse survivors from met with resistance stonewalling even outright hostility by leaders from America's largest partisans and nomination for more than two decades The report found leaders resisted calls for abuse prevention and reform The World Health Organization expects more cases of monkeypox to emerge the agency confirmed over 90 cases including 5 in the U.S. as of Saturday a likely case identified in Florida involves international travel This is the last week of a celebrity defamation trial in Virginia Today Johnny Depp will reportedly be back on the stand The Pirates of the Caribbean star already testified in this case against ex-wife Amber Heard He says her claims of domestic violence aren't true and have hurt his career She countersued and spent two days testifying as well Now Depp is expected to be called as a witness in her defense closing arguments.
TIME's Top Stories
"swiss alps" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"When you look at Forbes list of billionaires and see certain Russian oligarchs being worth ten, 15 and $20 billion, not all of that is theirs. I believe that half of it belongs to Vladimir Putin and possibly much more. These oligarchs don't keep this money in Russia. Instead, they keep it in the west. They use accounts in places like London, New York, and Zürich, to buy villas in the South of France, football teams in the UK, ski chalets and the Swiss Alps and yachts and private planes to Cris cross the world. This is Putin's Achilles heel, as we look at the menu of policy options being discussed by the Biden administration in response to Putin's manufactured Ukraine crisis, many are either too indirect or too harsh. Some such as broad sanctions would result in a lot of unnecessary hardships for ordinary Russians, who are victimized by Putin as much as anyone else. There is also been some discussion of cutting Russia out of swift, the system banks used to facilitate the transfer of money around the world. This is precisely what the U.S. did to Iran, and it knocked them back to the Stone Age economically. This would be a devastating blow to Russia, but it could also have a significant financial blowback on the west. I believe this should be held in reserve for a worst case scenario. Most recently, the U.S. announced sanctions that would curtail Russia's ability to further develop their oil and gas industry. These may be the type of thing that a long-term thinker would care about. But Putin is too preoccupied with his own short term survival to give them much weight. Moreover, these sanctions don't touch him personally. All of this brings us back to Putin's wealth, a tool called the magnitsky act named after my murdered Russian lawyer Sergei magnitsky, already exists, and it can be used to stop Putin in his tracks. The magnitsky act allows the U.S. government to freeze the assets and ban the travel of anyone involved in grand corruption or human rights abuse. These have devastating effects anyone who gets put on the US Treasury's magnitsky list becomes a financial pariah who can effectively no longer do business with anyone anywhere in the world. This is the power of the U.S. government. It might be symbolic to sanction Putin, but it would be very material to sanction his oligarch trustees. It's no mystery who they are, and it's straightforward to demonstrate that they've been involved in high level corruption. So how to proceed? First, President Biden should make a list of Putin's top 50 oligarch trustees and immediately sanction 5 of them. This would show Putin that the U.S. is not bluffing. Second, President Biden should give Putin a deadline of ten days to retreat from the Ukrainian border or another 5 oligarchs will be sanctioned. In the event that Putin does invade Ukraine, the U.S. will make it be known that they will sanction the full list of these 50 oligarchs, and then draw up a new list of 50 more. If you ask any Russian dissident or opposition politician, what would stop Putin? They would all point toward this strategy. The magnitsky act is like a modern day cancer drug. Instead of nearly killing the patient to target the cancer, it targets the cancer directly. When I describe this strategy, most people ask why the U.S. isn't already doing.
Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"swiss alps" Discussed on Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"It's somebody much smarter long ago should have really put all of these things together, but I'm grateful that it's me. Yeah, I can't believe you're doing anything, frankly. Number of times and it didn't seem like you were going to amount to anything. So this is really spectacular. Are these are these units that you buy, the portal thing? Are they, is it primarily a rental business? It's like you lease it out or people are people installing permanent portals or is that something a design you want what are the goals? What are you doing? We do sell them. We rent them. We leased them. We've got hundreds of units out. At any given time, dozens of them are being rented and they're being rented for huge events. Conventions, trade shows, concerts. We were just at art Basel where we were projecting NFTs into just into mid space and we're beaming chefs into supermarkets to do cooking and structural things and beaming CEOs. We beamed diddy. We've been diddy out of his home in Miami to be at his son's birthday party in Los Angeles, where they're being used for all sorts of reasons. But yeah, most of them are being permanently installed, please. What has been the, like, your favorite one? Besides your parents dancing, what's been, but you're favorite one that you've done? Well, like my children, every hologram, I love equally. Now I know you're high 'cause I don't love low my children eat the least at all. Right. There's been a lot we did a I heart music festival beamed Kane Brown from Nashville into Los Angeles to perform with swae Lee and Khalid. That was seen by a lot of people. I think the ones that I like the best are really the boring ones though. The ones that themselves, well, because it's like beaming a seat, okay, so super famous watch brand IWC they are watch branded Switzerland. The CEO of IWC beamed from the Swiss Alps into watches and wonders it's a convention in Shanghai every year. And he was able to beam in real time and sit opposite a bunch of other executives who needed to meet with him. Now, there was coronavirus and there was other things. So he just beamed in. He did his thing and he beamed out. And it really proved our business model that you don't have to book travel, you don't have to rent rent a car. You don't have to book a flight. You don't have to worry about any of this stuff. You beam in your beam out. Oh my God. The whole phrase that's like, this could have been an email. If you don't mind, speaking of being out, I need to lean out right this second so that our fantastic amazing sponsor can be in. And listen to this ad, it's going to.
The Book Review
"swiss alps" Discussed on The Book Review
"I am finally ready for the lockdown novel after almost two years of resisting it. And this one is not pandemic related as it was first published in 1979. But it certainly going to feel familiar, the story is that an aging man is trapped at home in the Swiss Alps as this terrible storm is raging around him. And there are reports of landslides and he's cut off from others. But at first the stakes seem relatively low. He's just kind of hanging out at home building houses out of crackers and reading. It's kind of a collage like novel. It's written in this fragmentary form that is come in vogue in recent years. But at the time, I think was quite unusual. We get inventories, snippets from the encyclopedia about whether and dinosaurs and geology. And at one point, he sets off from his house to try to make it through a mountain pass, but he turns around and then heads back to the house. And we start to learn, we learn a few things that is mind is starting to go and he seems to be prone to blackouts. And that the landslides are a lot closer and a much bigger threat than he thinks. And so we slowly start to realize that his situation is far worse than he seems to understand. And so the suspense slowly starts to build. But this isn't really a suspense novel. It's much more a book about the banal creep of mortality and about life being reduced to facts and gestures and just pure concrete details once our memory start to slip from us. As he's starting to he's reading about ground erosion and mass extinction and glacial melt and we get the sense of the inevitable, the era of humankind, the holocene is going to go of the way of the dinosaurs. This book may be fits all too well, the cliche of the late career novel. It's short, it's formally strange, obsessed with mortality, but I'm finding it no less profound. And it's quite short. So it can be released from lockdown fairly quickly. Well, I love a good book about the banal creep of mortality. That's right. Me too. What are your other top? Topics in that sub sub sub genre. That is a good question about that. You know, so interested in this notion of during a very anxious time the number of people who seem to be taking some kind of pleasure, refuge, solace or whatever in books that to me would increase my anxiety. And I'm really interested in why this appeals to you right now. You know, I felt the same way for two years as I was previewing books that were starting to come out about the pandemic about lockdown books. And I just had this sort of visceral repulsion. I just could not. I just didn't want to read it because I was experiencing it, and I just, you know, it was the last thing I wanted. I wanted to escapism..
RADCast Outdoors
"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
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Yeah yeah you can share with your family and friends but You know sesame sesame guy and a great friend for a long time so so so fun to have him on the podcast. That's for sure. Well we want to have you back. Seth and we'll discuss more epic adventure more fine and pleasant miseries. Yeah maybe he talked about some Backcountry hunts or something. I got to mountain goat on with a buddy of mine. Talk about that or other adventures or l. cutting with the muzzleloader. So fun with that. I knew that was going to throw that in there. Just see what you would say. You know you're good friends by the ones who uh my prod. The painful places. That's my job man. We'll talk to give you a little bit. I haven't had blisters until this year. And i've got the same pair of scarpa bought in thirteen to go on that same dall sheep. Same pair right but this year is so dang hot. I mean we're talking eighty degrees in the afternoon. And i've got wool socks. Han with my boots and gaiters and i got a few not true blisters but like heat blisters on the ball my feet but if anybody's listening out there i'm endorsing scarpa. Very well the wrangled. Gts is our three hundred fifty bucks. And i have more miles on those boots than average personal put if they make a wide enough one. I'll have to look at that. Got a fifty feet right all right guys. Well we're going to wrap up. This episode of rag cast outdoors again. You can find us on the socials. Checkout at rag cast outdoors podcast in make sure to share download and subscribe..
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"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
"The capability to say. Hey come get me. There's been some really cool advances in that sort of thing. But i think there's still space for i really really love. It's the is. The main thing i do is go out with people who care about your friends or even someone you just want to know. Better go into the mountains. You'll know them better But i think there is still space for that for that experience of experiencing. How creepy the woods are. When you're by yourself it's it is night and day different. Which is a weird way of saying that. Now that i think about it. But he's like it is not the same thing. The woods are not the same when you're by yourself as when you're with three or four other people even if you've got that fire lit there in the woods are more creepy than you would ever believe when you're by yourself and it's good to experience that and just work through that or just like sit on iraq and be forced to be alone with yourself for awhile. It's i think there's still space for that. And if someone has the try it like you can do it better than i did. The swiss trip for sure. Yeah i would. I wouldn't recommend like pack pre-packaging all of that hardship. But it's really worth experiencing you just want to be smart about it. And we're not talking about experiencing the outdoors like the koa or with your generator or with your car. Five feet away and you put a put a sleeping bag on the ground. We're talking in a. I don't care if it's alps trips or a strange trip or a wind river trip. We're talking where you've walked far enough away from the car that it's we wake up in the middle night either scared or alone or wet or there's a misery you don't just go hop in the car and go home and an end this. It's like well. I'm gonna take eight hours and hike back out or am i going to like like you said the only way through the to suffering keep going. Right toughened up and go. Yeah i was thinking about this. Most recent trip. I took spent a lot of time in the mornings is going down by the lake. Just sit on iraq and just take it all in you know. There's something special about that. I think is not lost on any of us on this podcast. That's important. But i wanna talk you know towards the interior to wrap up. I wanna ask you a couple of other things about your trip. So how long to take for your feet to not become the to basically heal from being hamburger the the blisters the first thing to heal up and that just you know all ahead to do was get rid of those boots and not where i wore flops for probably a month afterward. The worst thing was that overuse injury in that achilles. And that i think i one of the cool things about that trip is with fall trip so i think i got done near. I think september twenty third is when i actually was flying home and it was november before i wear hiking boots again. So what brand of boots were they want to say. Yeah they were. I have weird feet i. That's that's the big disclaimer. In this whole thing they were a solo boots up till that trip. They'd been my favorite boots. I'd ever had boots. Are you running. Now i've got contracts. Now penn so when you home you know coming back to you. Know your your everyday and coming back. What what were your big takeaways from doing that trip. What did you learn. Yeah i i really do some of. That's really fairly hard to put into words because there's just a part of it was a sense of satisfaction to have done something like that and i took my journal entries and the photographs i. I'm i'm fairly enthusiastic photographer. And it was a great place to go. So i had hundreds and hundreds of really spectacular pictures are rather the pacers. Maybe weren't that spectacular. But the things. I took pictures of. Were putting that together in kind of just memorializing that that trip and reflecting on it's really cool and satisfying to do something that big that was that was one of the things and just to know. I've mentioned like knowing where your limit is. While after that trip. I knew it was a little further than that right. Didn't find if you actually find by survive. That i can. I can do one percent more. That's that's right. Yeah the goal is to know like to get an idea but if you actually find out where the breaking point was then. That's probably a bad thing. But i do. I call that a killer hiker in my family to he went to kill a hiker so i think that was a big part of it. I think just going into life with a little extra bulking up on some mental toughness was really a a huge. Take away because it's like okay. I'm when i face hard things you have something. Even if it's a really different kind of challenge you still have access to that mental toughness. You've logged away. So that was a big thing and just the conversations with. I still think about some of those days where it's like. Oh man. What's inside of me when i'm stressed when i'm when i'm hurting or whatever kind of that i look back and think about those time so it's kind of a way point or for people who love hiking is kind of a cairn. It's a marker that makes sense it's always good to reflect on what you've done and see what lessons can be learned from it the other thing that we need to talk about because it's a big deal and all of our families is And this is changing gears big time but we ask everybody this question. What's your favorite protein or meal that you procure from the wilderness. And how do you cook it and prepare it You knew this was coming. I mean you know i did. And it's it's a difficult difficult question to answer. So one thing that i have to say that i might put in a little bit differently than the majority is for me. It's really great to have the proteins important. What else you have with the protein. I really enjoy it. If i i love to mushroom pec so if i can have that protein with morales or in the fall shan trails or beliefs that really adds a lot. We have a cranberry bog strangely randomly in the in idaho. That i won't tell you where you'd have to come with me. I'll show you where it is. Is it misery. We have a cranberry bog that you know when you make make something in your. You've got those extra things. So i really enjoy when there's another aspect of foraging in but i got a chance to to get a moves a few years back and it just. It doesn't get any better in my mind than than that. I love the the taste. But there's there's so many different good ways to do it. Like i've i've really gotten more into using whole roasts and doing doing like whole muscle package roast. I've been getting into a little bit of shirk kutaragi like doing stuff like that. And it's like yeah doing a doing like morning breakfast. Fresh pastrami with some eggs and stuff. That's really hard to be especially if you've got some mushrooms to go with it and since we're on the topic of food we gotta talk about high mountain seasonings and we actually had some. What was that yesterday was. Yeah yeah so. We had some trout that that suffered flayed out and wanted to pan fry in so we had the western style. Trout seasoning made by high mountain on there and that was delicious. Wasn't it true story because they they're not they're not sponsoring me. I said i need. I need to get some of this. I usually don't like trout. I'm i'm a catch and release fisherman with trout generally because i don't think they're leg legless lizards But that That really did. After we had let pat. I need to take some of that home with me because it. Yeah i endorse it. So it is that time of season two. I mean everybody's out neither catching fish shooting l. gallup deer. If you haven't tried high mountain seasonings you need to go. 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"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
"Yeah. These are all experiences that you know. If you just play video games or watch movies you don't get. And i i was thinking about you know when i come home from alcon. I'm just astonished by. I go to the can lift. A handle and water comes out. I don't have to pump this stuff to boil it. You don't know what's crazy i'm actually thinking of. I can't remember fewer on this trip. Pat pat and i did a number of these trips with my dad when we were young. What second to fourth grade. I think was what most of them happen but there was also seeing examples of someone who does well under pressure as such a big deal. Because when you you guys talk a lot about recruiting new people and this is the rare podcast where you're hunting fishing the everything else. Everything in between Kind of podcast. There was a night where you know we're in wyoming as it does it starts leading and dad didn't have any money for gear so he's taken all us first through sixth grade boys out in to who knows where somewhere he'd never been probably kudos to de by the way that was not an easy task of. Hey let's take your kids out the woods. So he's got like a dozen of us mostly not his kids which makes it makes a different rate and we just had tarps. And so we'd setup tart shelters one of these little boys rolled out from underneath is tarp and got in the sleet freezing cold so my dad like he wakes you know he wakes up probably crying. You know no no shame in that when you're a little guy to freeze too tough right and Dad got him like dad gave up his sleeping bag. Got him back underneath the shelter. Dad's spent the night freezing on one side and burning to a crisp on the other with the campfire and doing that that shuffled around the campfire. Kinda like spooning the campfire and seeing that example of someone who take something that you could call hardship probably safely right. No one's going to say like no. That sounds like it was that was fun and and handling it well and putting someone else in front of themselves and living out like okay you say that you you have these values these principles in this faith but when you see that someone else it's not even it's sometimes. It's not even the experience of you having that right seeing someone else and seeing that example i think another element is is this important. This important for young people young men. Yeah that is seeing someone who mentors them in that and does it well. That's super important. Absolutely and i think the outdoors is one of the best teachers. You know when you're because like you said you'd puts you in situations that are very uncomfortable at times and you have to cope with it and you also have to cope with the thoughts. They come into your head positive and negative right of you know. I can't do this. i can't do this. this is miserable. I'm freezing you know I think back to when we were in college. We took that trip up into the snow as with your family and snowed on in the middle of the night and had to light a fire. That was not easy to light for one and for two we had to keep going all night stay warm because it was brutal but those kind of experiences teacher quite a bit. I think yeah. Absolutely i remember. That was Also you were newly married. As i remember at that point and try and navigate like i'm out here with friends and you know basically family. No we're having a good time trying to do thing and plans are changing and also trying to remember is like i've made promises to love this other person while and so that might mean us not hitting all twenty lakes. We've planned today because that was that particular guide looked at the map and said like hey we can catch a fish twenty lakes and one day that would be awesome and we had to punt on it conditions weren't conducive and we pulled the plug in got out of. There was an interesting trip to say the least but it was fun. There definitely is a time when it's time to pull the plug right and it. Oh it's it's not all the time but there's an it makes it. I think about the dall sheep tang in there on the wall and the night we slept in the cave and book up on our water bladders were frozen and we'd shared the one mountain house for dinner for three of us right so i think we had a snickers bar in a bag of beef jerky and some trail mix to share for breakfast and then it was like twelve hours back camp right brutal at. It's frozen and i fired the jet boil up and it says do not melt snow and ice. I'm like i don't care. I'm going to have water and everything's frozen. Burned the fence off the bottom of it. That was enough to just you know mentally. If you had some weak people go through her hands in there and walk away. It was like well. No okay. we'll just. We'll use this water and we'll had to start putting it inside jackets to thought or are blotters and and get the water but my point was having those hardships but then being able to have the camaraderie to to move forward and having somebody else that can mentally maybe be a little bit crutch for you to lean on and say no. We'll we'll we'll get through this together and then you can move forward. Yeah absolutely and just. And that is the difference of one of the major differences about noon stuff solo versus doing it with with a friend. I mean you get you get to share the memories instead of talking about. Oh this cool thing. I did this the cool thing that we did. And that's such a. That's a richer experience in from mation but there's also yeah you definitely do get to say a crutch is like well. No you're you're much stronger with two people although sometimes that responsibility if you're if you're introducing someone new. You can't really rely on them to do that for you. In that case like especially when you're introducing someone you actually have. I've experienced that. Maybe you guys have to where you actually have to be mentally stronger than you are so low. Because you've got someone else you don't want to freak out or they are freaking out and you gotta be like okay does not just with the hatchet. But we're gonna we're gonna get outta here. We're going to be okay in your head. You're going to ask you remember that kid. They cut his hand open on that one trip with your dad know you remind me so. We had a kid. He was woodland on a piece of wood and he cut his thumb. I mean it was deep was pretty nasty. And i think your data told him not to be wiggling like that but anyway so anyway. This kid cuts his hand. Super deep and your dad went and got the first aid kit and got him ended up but he told him he's like oh. We're not going to pause you to my dad's first aid kit that it sounds like something. My dad's first aid. Kit was ibuprofen and gauze. Yeah i was. Gaza duct tape like that so like gets the first aid. Kit is a slightly misleading rolodex. Roll of toilet paper. We're yeah. I don't remember which getaways that i remember. He cut his thumb. And your dad took care of them but you know i think some of those trips were you know some of the most fun things doing as a kid and you know i look at us now. The three of us. I mean we. We all have our different things that we love to go. Do and Our niche. I guess you could say and a lot of ways but it all kinda hinges around the outdoors and friendships and relationships which are important And so like. I think about you coming down here. You know. we're doing some fishing. Which is kind of more my thing but just hanging out and visiting which is a big deal and i think you know doing a lot of these expeditions style. Things if you have someone to go with you can have some really meaningful conversations and work through some of the stuff that gets.
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"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
"Me too me too. I mean my light pack was as we talked about over thirty. So you know what you were talking. What were asking about patas like when you have a reason. That's bigger than just like i'm out for a walk. That helps anchor you when it gets tough for me to part of that had to do with i was also out there. You know there's part of it that's just purely like what am i made of physically. What what am i capable of. I wanna push wanna push it and do something bigger than i've ever done and do something incredible but for me also it. There was a tie in with faith to I'm a follower of jesus and that that point of the it's a significant crossroads part of my life and in figuring out what i made made of it also had to do with time spending with god intentionally and that was part of i would have loved to have taken a friend with me but it's hard to talk someone into like. Do you have twenty three days where he just want to walk anyone for that. It's hard. It's hard to find anyone. So the fact that i was doing it by myself i thought i wanna make the most of this time and so a lot of those conversations that i have with god also really may played into that because sometimes when you're under pressure rate what's really inside of you bubbles to the surface that i've found a lot of the stuff wasn't really all that great. I remember just like biting my walking stick on one day like literally biting my walking stick inches like had all these really dark as you know. Just the response to pain and frustration and things that were in my mind exhaustion to exhaustion. It was just. It was one of those things where than i had a really good conversation with god about like. What kind of person am i really inside because this hardship is bringing that to the surface and this is what this is really who i am is what when you squeeze me what comes out and so that was also a big part of pushing through that. And there's there's another aspect to like part of it just comes down to when you do something hard for the first time you think like. Oh i can't do this but then you do it again whether it's packing out and elk or or like i've seen this with friends who have kids and whatnot. They think the first kids get killed them right and then they they keep on waking up in the morning and they keep on doing it and you just find out like oh this may not be my favorite but i can. I can do around. Father has a an emerson quote. That has been instilled in me since i was two. And it's a that which you persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not the nature of the thing is changed but your ability to do is increased in also going through and pushing through these mental physical emotional barriers like you said. Most people hit that barrett about their forty percent capability. And go okay. That's that's my true. That's my max one hundred percent and you know if you don't push those limits and those barriers you never you never open up into that other sixty percent of your capability. Yeah absolutely. i took another ill-advised. I've done a number of these I took a. I'm seeing a pattern here. Patterns sequences of events took a friend on another one in utah. And that was one of the things he really said. Afterwards he just graduated from college he was engaged to get married or thinking about getting engaged at the time actually and i invited into do a traverse range in utah and apparently undersold sold the difficulty or something which i try not to do but you know it happens and i just remember looking at him most of the way through the trip and he looks like one of those mountaineer people like just skin peeling from his forehead and lips and just work for poor. Rich sweetie looked just about dead. I remember we got done with this trip. And he's like. I didn't think i could do something like that like well. Yeah you can He's i don't think he's ever done anything like that again. And that's fine. But but she went into the rest of his life knowing. Like i can do something that hard and can push through something like that. And that's that's really a great thing for all of life really and for for me you know. You're you're reminiscing of it. Oh you talk about squeeze me and see what comes out and you know you can take me to a church building. Yeah i'm there. And i can try and try and commune. But when i'm out in the wilderness when it's peacefully quiet i mean that's for me as much of a reason to go chase elk as the protein as it is just to to sit on that ridge and watch the sun come up and and get that reflection meditative communication time of. Who am i what am i doing. Why am i here I have a question for you kind of along the same lines. But i don't think you know you look at a hundred years ago. There were a lot of young men who have experiences where they did stuff. That was really difficult. And i don't think we have that much anymore. Not to the same degree. David and i've talked about this before on fishing trips and south and i've talked about how things have just changed so much. I'm curious for you. Do you think that you know our our society. Maybe desperately needs more things like that to to push the envelope and squeeze some people and see what they're made other especially young men. Yeah i mean making statements about all of society's kind of fraught with peril to a degree. But i think it's pretty undeniable that we have the capability to avoid hard things here in a way that very few people in history. I mean like we don't have to power field or starve. So there is that dynamic and i've i've had the privilege of working with with young people both college students and high school students. I helped her in a wilderness camp for a number of years and we had guys coming from florida and different things and very few of them probably ever picked up you wanting to backpack a lot but having that experience of things. Yeah there's there's a connection to character that i think is really vital. I don't i my favorite way to do it in the outdoors. I think there are other ways you can accomplish some of the same ends right but the mountains or deserts too for that matter just outside going to a place where you strip away. The conveniences of life and a lot of the distractions to quite frankly and you just get down to things that are very basic in very real in gritty and sweat and muscle aches and those kinds of things. Yeah i do think it's important component and certainly for men and for women too but i think that desire you know that was implanted in know by my dad's and it sounds like you to david is something that yeah i. I do think that's an important part of character and it's easy to you. Know it's easy to be good person when everything is going. Well it's very different when it's sleeting and you've rolled out from underneath your tarp tent or whatever and you learn a lot in your life with a wet sleeping bag or you Tried to dry your cope by the fire and it fell in cote.
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"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
"That's insane elkins. We're any any of my. Big hunts are not even half of this right. I mean we're talking. You might go from six to ten on a good day and then go back and you might go three miles out and three miles back. Maybe five miles so i might do a ten mile day. Do plus and minus six thousand feet. You're doing plus or minus fourteen thousand feet and twenty miles. I mean that's just. And i get at least me. I get to the point where i can't eat. Just you're not hungry you. You're so exhausted. It's gimme some water and gimme some sleep. It's food is not primarily for the first days. But then you get into a point where you're talking about where it's like. I could eat everything. I could eat the whole cow right now. Yeah for sure. And you know. And we all know as outdoorsman but if anyone hasn't done something where bush whacked a lot you know what's different because people always say. How many miles did you cover. Well it's the wrong question. It's not how many miles it's which miles right. So i mean you are on trail in the swiss have remarkable trail so it does save energy that you're not worrying about like okay even mental. Like you're not wondering like should i go left or right here. Am i going to bluff out that kind of thing. You know that you do when you're hunting and you're on the pack trail. I mean you can run three miles up the river in twenty minutes you get off trail you can maybe go half a mile in an hour and a half because you're going overblown downs and trying to pick your ed's it is a little different. Yes so that being said it is a a lot of energy expenditure to do that. I think one of the other one of the other things that i remember really distinctly about the trip was there was a day. I'm hiking into a in a place. Like i'm a sherlock holmes fan so if any if anyone is familiar with sherlock holmes there's a there's a famous story it's the one where arthur conan doyle killed sherlock holmes. It takes place in switzerland. I was going to be passing through the village on a massive nerd. I was really excited about this. And i can remember because one of the things. I didn't one of the mistakes. I made his. I didn't live in my boots before on this trip. And so boots. That i had worn a lot had done. A lot of backpacking in. They were killing my feet. And so i had major blister issues pretty much the entire trip and had kind of that was part of my morning routine. You ask about morning routine like blister care. That was the first thing in the morning. Like trying to keep things clean trying to keep it from getting worse. But blister care was something that i had to do every day home hyphen and just by the end of the day. You just heard it's like you're getting spanked on the bottom of your feet with like a flaming hot board and you're going around and then you'd catch view you come over a pass or something you'd see the valley open up below you and just catch your breath and you would make the pain go away. That's important thing to remember. This whole trip is probably every time you turn. Every which way. There's another vista the photo. Where the gob stopping. Just you look at it and you think like if that waterfall was back home. There'd be people. There'd been overlook here there'd be people queued up taking pictures of it and here on the only one means some dairy cows elkin. Is i get to go see some of the vistas here in in the winds or some of the other places that there is no trail too right yeah get to find even little wallows in little bubbling creeks and you know. Yeah the all. The lakes have a major trail to him and and trail heads. Whatever but you know. I i like the fact at least for me elk hunting. I'm gonna climb the same vista that you're going to But then i'm gonna get up there. Get my binoculars out figure out. How are the animals utilizing this. And i'm other cool. Part is is being the hunters. I'm their morning and night. I get to see sunrise and sunset every day right so but through the through all this pain through all this misery. It's important to mark that these vistas. These views are three sixty twenty four seven. It's not just like oh we're gonna hike. We're gonna take one picture that tetons and we're gonna get a car and drive away. No it's no you're in it you're living in and that's one of the things you pick up this rhythm but the reason i was bringing up this particular gin into you know for anyone who actually speaks german. I apologize. my pronunciation is appalling. But this town Is marine gin. And i was dropping into it and just in a lot of pain and i remember the shock when i got finally got into cases where sherlock holmes and buck fall So i got down there. And they had a little museum there it was just. It was a a happy place for nerds which was really fun. It was it was a little surprising how much that was. So but when i got to got to camp and you know that feeling taking your boots off after a really brutal day the foot that it hurt my left foot just hurt hurt and hurt. When i took off my boots my apologize this little gross but it's part of the story. So maybe you're here for that. But i take off my right boot and it's just blood all the way through the stock and i looked and my right. Pinky toe had a blister that had wrapped all the way around it the entire toe and then burst and blood through the sock. Oh it was my other foot. That was hurting at that point. You know the feeder hash because the the foot. That's got a blister that wraps an entire toe and is bleeding through the sock is not the foot. You're worried about so this kind of this weird combination of those vistas and it's back to that line and pleasant misery misery when you got back just talking to you about this trip and just thinking to myself. Why in the world did that. But the you know the people. That don't know seth i mean he's always been kind of want to be up for the challenge and up for the pain so talk about that a little bit about the mental aspect of processing the pain and enduring through that. Because i'm sure you had some really rough times getting through especially at that point your feet or shot. Yeah so. I think part of it is at some point. You realize that really the best way to be to be done is to get through it and so we were. We were rereading that mcmanus story and they were in that story. they're talking about evaluating their options and they may say like the only way to do it as just toughened up and do it. And there's a reality to that at some level is that you just go but i think part of it was tied into one of the things that was anchoring for me is the reason i was doing the trip in the first place. I'm like yes i wanted to see. I wanted to see the alps but there was also a at a significant part of life rate. Just finished college going into what's next that i wanted to push the envelope. See where the edges were like. What am i capable of right. So that's part of the idea of the big trip. Is you find out. what am i made of. Most people like main in perspective with this. You had your injury at mile eighty and you're doing two hundred and fifty right and we're not. We're not talking flat miles. You know not. Not here to laramie walking down the highway. But i've read and heard several times that most people quit at about forty percent of their capability on. That's that's where your injury was. You could have just said yeah. Okay i've came of seen in scouts as a kid. We did a fifty miler. And i had a fifty five pound backpack on. It said fifteen and here. This guy's hike in the pacific crest trail with an eighteen pound backpack and doing the whole thing in summer. Now he'd gone ahead and mailed himself food to each town here. Seth the package but he. I mean here. I am with a tent and asleep bag and ed food for every day plus fire starter plus efficient poll and this guy had a jacket and a pair of short cities. Like i've got a little blanket. That i let not mostly packages. I just lay down on a blanket and have small little tarp. If it's gonna rain eighteen pounds light for a oh man. that's that's too.
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"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
"But for me probably about thirty five pounds from the hunting realm. I mean i don't even day hike with thirty five pounds. I mean i'm leading the forty plus pounds when you're talking glass and ammo and equipment. Well yeah exactly. And i think that's where that's the perspective that i came from. Because you go backpacking to go fishing or do these other things or you know you. I like spending time in camp. It's not like the people who just want to have a good time on the trail and then be really bare bones and camp. So i'm with you. I felt like a light pack. I did get it a little heavier because that was really one of the things that surprise me. Is you just go to a new place. And they don't have the same rules. One of the things. I found out the hard way. Is that all the grocery stores close at six pm. So if you show up at six thirty because you got lost or like weren't feeling well or something and you're not packing food just not eating that night. It was like oh well. This was a mistake. This regrettable and then the stores aren't open on sunday either. So what actually. The biggest climb of the trip. I lost track of the days. Because when you're by yourself it doesn't matter what am i going to do. I'm gonna get up. i'm going to hike. They don hiking. And then i'm going to go to sleep and then i'm going to get up and and the makes it sound really terrible but if you see like if you look at pictures of the place you realize that it's kind of this juxtaposition between all of this sounds really miserable but it really is as magically beautiful places you can imagine so you're looking at it and all the pictures make it look like it. Was this wonderful. Just like birdsong and like rainbows in a magical place and then talk about and it sounds like it's the most hellacious thing ever and it was kind of a bit of both but i want you to talk about something specific here in regards to the food so getting back to the supermarkets being closed but also tell me about the food how it's different in the issues that you had because the food is so different. Yeah so first of all. The food is marvelous. Because i you know. I'd go to a grocery store. Once i figured it out i was eating fresh pastries and and really excellent cheese and different things like that but their food is less salty than ours. So if you're hiking twelve fifteen miles or more in a day working really hard. What i found is even. When i was eating i thought i had it figured out. I got assault efficiency so that hypo nutrient and you just feel like death. Death heated over and realize like. Oh i haven't taken enough salt so after that happened. The second time like i was making sure by pretzels. And then all the salt and the bottom of the bag is eating that just trying to keep up with the salt output. But that was the other thing was just like realizing that i like. I've said a couple times just realizing that food wasn't available the way i thought it was just when you look on the map and see like there's village there you think they'll have a source of food and not necessarily so that. Was those two things really like once. I figured that out. It was pretty good but you had to. The food is really great. You just had to think about things that you didn't normally because usually the kind of food that i eat when i backpack is super salty and your body wants that when you're out but then you go and eat something it's like. Oh this is wonderful. It's great quality but it doesn't give you what you need. So i i hadn't expected that at all. Yeah and i mean it's brutal you talk about elevation gain and then talk about the number of miles the number of hours. Your body is just completely wrecked. It is because i mean. It's it's burning calories at a much higher rate rate than you can quite. Frankly replace doing the kind of work that you're doing. So what was your kind of daily schedule as far as food intake in like when you got to camp. What was your routine. Yeah so one of the things that i thought i would do. As i thought i'd be cooking but as it turned out i didn't really cook at all hardly on the trip so i'd get up once again. This is more after. I'd figured things out you know. I'd go find a a market by fistful of pastries like turnovers and other whatever looked good and i would eat some of that and then i was always finding they had Kind of jerky sticks. But it was their version of it. I'd always pick up a bunch of those at the end of the day kind of protein and it sounds like it would be terrible but it just like it hit the spot and they have a sparkling apple juice of replacing some sugars that i drank by the they sold in an leader and a half thing and i would have one pretty much every night and because after you've like a gallon and a half just straight water during the day it's it's it's wonderful clear. Fresh you know tasting water. But you're ready for something else so those salty foods like lots of pretzels. Different things than i would find. I you know i don. The food doesn't really stand out to me except for. I'm a huge fan of cheese and there was just it really. Is they do a wonderful job of cheese. And it's funny. I didn't see swiss cheese anywhere there but they have on. How ironic may have all of these different They call him out kesse and it's it was super good and if you love cheese and do you know just like oh pick a different one every day and kind of do that kind of stuff. But you can't eat you know especially when you're working hard you gotta you gotta mind that you can't just eat blocks of cheese so i'll break down. What's the difference between cheese there. And she's here. It's just different varieties really but you know one of my favorite memories as i came over this pass in probably the most single spectacular part of the area. The bernese oberland in there. Was this gal selling cheese next to the trail and she was just giving away samples and stopped and talked and talked about. She like to go up up on these really high mountains up on the glaciers and stuff and just talk to her and like it was cheese. They made right there. So i think that's i think that's one of the key. Differences is a lot of what you're looking at as someone who actually lives in the alps made this cheese and they're selling it locally and you can get that in the state trait but most of the chiefs was that way. They're one of the things that comes. Miami say that is all occasionally. I'll get some. Fresh albacore. got some buddies from oregon. That'll bring some or we'll get someone will home. Can you go to the store and you buy bumble bee tuna and you open it up and make a tuna fish sandwich and it's like okay you take some of that home canned albacore. It's it's ten times better. It's gotta be the same with the cheese here. You go buy some cheese. It's been put on a ship and truck over here and refrigerated forever and it's like ed's cheese and it's better than in the the lutheran whatever but when it's fresh from the person that made right there that's basically making a living at doing. Yeah that reminds me. I did eat a lot of chocolate there too famous for chocolate chocolate. So this is cheap. Did you lose a lot of weight on this trip. Yeah i lost about fifteen pounds in nineteen days so keep that in mind folks. He's eating chocolate and pastries and all this other stuff and he is dropping late. I mean that just tells you how grilling the the walk. The long walk was. Yeah one of my favorite points of news couple fund stories or maybe just one if i can remember the other one was i had a day where it was the day that i found out that had lost track of the days because they don't things aren't open on sunday i missed the market and Then i nothing was open the next day so i had a sixty seven hundred foot. Climb right out in these hikes they punch in the mouth you camp in this valley and then you immediately climb nonstop for sixty seven hundred feet and then you go down that far again. That's created with blake. No food i was out of food didn't have anything. Start up the way and of course you know you have issues when you do that. Because like salts are all out of balance. And i just felt terrible. Like no surprise. And i'm sitting there. I'm sitting there on this rock about one hundred feet below the pass just thinking like i think i'm gonna die and i remembered that i had assault. Pack some seasoning in my home rooting around. That and i had a little sugar. Pack naive that start to feel slightly better. And i'm walking up the trail and someone had lost this.
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"I wanted to see all of it you know. There's there's gear we can talk about but the back to the fine and pleasant misery. I'm sure there's you know. I think of the hikes i've done the backpacking and the ones that went. Well i okay yeah. Let's not talk about those. The ones that didn't go so well on the night that my brother and i slept under an emergency blanket and shared one mountain house between three guys. Now we killed two rams the next morning and the backpacks got real heavy but is there any crucible in that story of the where. Where was the most miserable part of that trip. Yeah that's a. That's an excellent question because there are some really good candidates of pats. Pats heard this story so he knows that i did. I'm not one of those three hikers. That knows what they're doing. And i'm not a big at that point. I think this was my second time out of the us. Barring a couple times up to you know the canadian part of glacier waterton. So i'm not not a big international traveler either like exchanging money doing very very out of my wheelhouse so really. It started off like in the first seven days i was there. There were three days where i didn't get a full meal. And you're hiking up like average elevation game between four and five thousand feet on this pass and then a drop like that on the backside and doing that without calories is is rough. What really really locked the trip into kind of epic misery was i injured my left achilles tendon about eighty miles in so third of the way in. Yeah just like and it was. I brought a journal with me. Which is great because i'd also did this solo. Which makes everything so much harder because all of the mental battles all that stuff. You don't look over at your buddy and say man. This is hard is like. Oh but we'll make it just you sitting on a rock somewhere thinking like what on earth had done. This is the worst thing ever so. Yeah that that achilles. Glad i have the journal because i i've got this documentation of the different kinds of pain that had experience with that everything from kind of what i described as kind of a wet. I don't know how to say it. It was just like there. Was this wet sticky pain to someone jabbing a knife in my ankle. Kind of pain and i had some days. I did twenty mile with that. The i like. You just don't know what you're gonna do as well. I'll just go a little farther. Maybe i'll camp and by the end of the day. I'd made it to are supposed to go and that was that was pretty rough. But it didn't go away. So it kinda cumulatively added as you. The ankle issues didn't go away. The blisters didn't go away. I ended up cutting boots. I had equipment issue so whatever you wanna hear about. The whole thing was a crucible is kind of what the point. I had a day where i was really expecting. This is a light day. And then i actually did the mouth because my guidebook had everything in meters so i actually converted like. Oh wait a minute. I've got twelve hundred feet of climbing in two passes like twelve miles today. This isn't a light day. Twelve to passes. Yeah when the ibuprofen starts stops working rather you're just mentally. It was very very tough. So were you in your back to that mental battle. I think about the first dall sheep. I went on and the guy went with. I mean we we. We suffered right but every time it got really really bad. He'd asked me right. Ask him how you like it now. The the standard answer was loving it right nothing else to do but love it so that that shared camaraderie of the mental battle. Like you talked about that piece of when you're solo in you're eighty miles in here you are. I've got injury. There had been the creeping thought of do. I just bow outdoor cancel. Do i quit. Oh absolutely yeah actually. What are the things. That was super important for me. Because you know it's not like being in a wilderness. The frank church in idaho or something. Something like that where. There's just no way no way through but out there's trains everywhere you could. You could pack it. It and you could quit downhill a mile or two or three or five. And you're done so i mean that made it really different but i ran into this guy from scotland who is in his fifties and i can't remember. I think his name was andy or something but catch sight of him periodically in the first third of the trip. Personas like man if this year old scottish guys doing this by himself i can't i can't i can't stop with hindu in it and you know you meet people along the way as well like i met a guy from bend oregon and it was just so you have some of these things where it's like. Oh this bend. Oregon bob and conversation like medium like simon a couple of consecutive days and talk talked with him and stuff like that. I actually one of the more interesting experiences. I was at a place where i could pay to pitch my tent. Which is a weird thing for anyone from our part of the world. Don't kidding it's a pain exactly exactly right. So i met this swiss cow. Who's doing a bike tour with her dad because she just returned from eight months six months in the us and more in like australia or something Cycling with her boyfriend and they had gone all over the place and she asked where i was from. And i said idaho. Oh i love idaho about idaho. And where in idaho from greenville. Oh i love grange villa. Like having fun with me. Here in the leaking. No one knows where greensville is but the thing that she said that i really really loved and stuck with me as i was asking her about this cycling for eight months. Seems like a lot to me even if you love cycling and she said well her and her boyfriend. They sold all their stuff like got other. Lisa's and went and did this thing so well. There's always good reasons not to do something. Yeah there's always reasons to not do things so sometimes you just hit them anyway. Exactly is always easy excuses to get out of it. Yeah there is. What did your backpack way. Average for this whole trip i actually significantly upgraded gear later. But i was just you know pretty broke had a nice pack but i was probably in the neighborhood of thirty pounds at the beginning. Because when you don't have the money to buy the geared shave ounces. Your stuff is heavy. One of the big mistakes i made early on as i thought. Well there's a village every five miles in this place. So i don't have to pack food that that's not true. You do need to pack food. So i was probably somewhere between one size wise end up carrying a couple of days food still probably. I would consider it a fairly light pack. I know the people who actually do through hiking or thinking. What are you talking about. Thirty five pounds as a ton.
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"swiss alps" Discussed on RADCast Outdoors
"Welcome to another episode of rag cast outdoors. I'm patrick edwards. Time david maryland. We're in the great indoors today. Talking about the great outdoors you. You caught me in a rare moment of home. David's been up in the mountains is some of you all know how they go. Brutal brutal is a tough year. Lots of grizzly bears The moon was full all night. And then we've got some snow and just cramp down but we were in elk every day so it was. It was everything i wanted just to it was. It was very taxing and daunting elk. But we're home now and we have meet the freezer so no complaints. Yeah you can't complain when you have meet meet is a good thing and so today. We've got a special guest in the studio friend of mine for thirty two years. Seth ewing welcome to the show. So it's exciting. To be here came all the way fourteen hour. Drive from idaho to come and talk to us In hang out with me and kept lots of fish which we did over the past few days. Let's be honest. Mostly that yeah. We were some fish and so it was a lot of fun. But yeah and i've been friends since we were five years old. And seth is much more of the hiker adventurer guy than me and so i thought it would be fun to have him. Come on and talk about one of the coolest trips. He's ever done probably the most brutal trip he's ever done. Yeah i tried to. I tried to pass it up this last summer as far as the brutal that goes but it was very special for sure absolutely and so just just to kind of get to know your seth Tell everybody you know where you're from and just a little bit about how you got into hiking. Yeah so Grew up in southern southeastern wyoming and north central montana and my my dad was a texas transplant so grew up in the city really really longed to be in the mountains and it was hard to keep him out of the mountains really as a young when he was young man so when he had kids i think he started taking me fishing with him while i was still in diapers. He's got stories of me. Like eating rob brook trout. Neither hand woman in diapers So it's kind of the blood so to speak at that point. But he also he loves getting into new new ground so started me and my brothers and other other young boys especially back into the mountains and backpacking. When i was really quite young. So something that. I've always done and yet never stopped doing really. So that's kind of how. I got my my intro into it and the other thing really was there whose dad will always go off with his friends at he'd leave us all behind and he brings back like a rock and tell us these stories about going up into the wind river range and with his buddies and catching trout and fallen off logs into the ice water and nearly freezing to death and stuff. So those part of like this. When you're a man this is what you do. Go off in the mountains and you you nearly die and i feel a little kindred spirit to your dad you know being raised as a city boy and once. I got my taste of the mountains. I haven't laughed right i. I grew up in oregon. We've talked about that. But moved moved to alaska and then moved to wyoming. And i pick up rocks to this day in from like my trips to the brooks range and bring them back my son and be like here. Here's a special rock from the brooks returned and we look at a map of where that was at. And it's an. I'm always when you're talking about expanding in territory. I liked to learn this drainage and then mike always wondering hey what and it doesn't matter if you're fishing or hiking hunting it's always well. What's over the next rain. What's over the next toners. Always that that draw or that poll to say. Hey this is look and see. What's over there. i sometimes. it's a hellacious horrible. We're never doing that again. Other times you find hidden little lakes or streams that are just loaded with with goodness right. Yeah absolutely it was funny. I got no i move to utah Some years back. And i finally made it to the wind. River range felt like Never been but. I made sure i got my dad iraq and send it to him in the mail so as a little one here you go dad a little. Have a rock. Yeah exactly well you know. It's been fun just watching you over the years. You've always been the guy who goes up into the wilderness and backpacks and you've got that adventurous. Spirit and i remember back in twenty ten when you plan this huge trip and i i told you you were crazy and you are. But that's the point but but usually patrick most of the trips that you know i think of the ones i've done. The ones that are memorable involve a lot of suffering right and some degree of extremity. Where you you might die. That's the ones you're like. Hey let's do that again. So we were talking about patrick mcmanus and some of those stories. Go ahead and relay that from earlier today. Yeah so i. I'm a big fan of patrick mcmanus and know the pat is to you and so i asked him. Do you remember near member at the the story the big trip and you no. I don't remember that one so got a hold of it online and made sure that got a chance to read it. But it's the whole concept. Is that when pat was well. Patrick management different pat. When he was a kid he would like escape with this fantasy of doing the big trip and part of the big trip was that it would need to be really hard and so a big part of the story. Is that you you want to make sure that your hardships happen. Because if it's an easy trip than the that's not the big trip you half. If everything went correctly that you have to suffer greatly for it to be so. It's this whole story about this. I'm sure and crabtree. With red. Sweeney story for those of you heard familiar for those of you for those of you. Who aren't you need to pick up a fine and pleasant misery and read some. There's there's like twelve. Other patrick mcmanus. Who he is all three of us. Here he'd fans so if you didn't grow up reading him in outdoor life missed out as a child a finding pleasant miseries a good place to start though because that's a little bit and related to what we're talking about for sure just even that book title. It's like this guy. Gets it fine in pleasant misery. Talk about misery it. It definitely makes things more memorable. But you were telling me about this trip and you were. You know very ambitious in my opinion saying you were to go. Couple hundred miles in swiss alps you've ended up doing about two hundred and forty in the course of sixteen nineteen days three of those days. You didn't heightened but just for the listener. Put that in perspective do the math. That's that's quite a bit every day and So seth i want you to tell just you know. Why did you even think of doing something like that. What what was your motivation. Yeah well it was really a combination of a couple of different things. One that was not insignificant. As i had a couple of friends who had gone and they showed me pictures and i thought i have to see that. I have to go and see that those are you know. I grew up in the mountains and loving the mountain so museum mountains like that is i have to actually get there and see that because if that's what the picture looks like i've got to see that in person so that was the genesis of it but i was graduating from college. My parents said well you can either have some money or will buy. Who plane tickets this switzerland. So you can do this hike okay. Well what do i wanna see. Do i wanna see like the matterhorn. Or or these. This part of the bernese alps. Or what did i just decided. I wanna see as much of it as i possibly can in a in a three week period. If i'm gone for three weeks how much of it can. I see and i settled on that route because i was going to see the place that i had most been interested in seeing and i would kind of do a diagonal if you rethink about switzerland. It's coming to the shape of a kidney bean. And i just cut across the long access to being from the. What is that kind of the central eastern border all the way all the way to lake geneva and so i thought that's the best way to see it probably going to get to go once. So.
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Ashley Judd Walks Again Long After Shattering Leg in Africa
"Actor Ashley Judd is walking in the Swiss Alps six months after she shattered her leg in Africa I'm marquees are loaded with the latest Ashley Judd writes on Instagram she was able to walk up hill in the Swiss National Park on uneven surfaces for an hour judge says her medical team expected her to be able to move her foot in a year but she had movement after four months in February Judd was on a research trip in a Congolese rainforest when she tripped over a log and shattered her tibia she spent five hours on the forest floor biting a stick and pain and Judd nearly lost her leg now John says her leg will never be the same but she and her legs are buddies
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"swiss alps" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"From the Star Tribune is with us. You can follow her on Twitter at strip books, and we've also posted Really great book. Story, you know, just different books. A link to the Star Tribune story. Yeah. Good recommendations. They're always wanted their their weight in gold. That's for sure. Okay, so Yeah, I know. Lori. Thank you so much for being the same with us. OK? Any other books that you want to like, Give, you know, like Extra plugs to or give us Ah, you know. Well, I remember when I talk to you in May we talked about Curtis Sittenfeld Rodham Yes, I thought was, ah, lot of fun, and I think we also talk to them about Week rejects the night watchman, which is just a really wonderful book about some novel fictionalized account of remarkable thing that her grandfather did. Um, saving the Turtle Mountain tribe. But I also wanted to mention Charles Baxter's new novel, The Sun Collective. He also lives in Minneapolis. And, of course, he's very renowned. He just retired. From the U, where he taught in the M F a program and this book is set in Minneapolis and, um It also has. I think this is kind of a recurring thing that I'm seeing in novels that I love. And it's this. This combination of realism and kind of Mystical, weird things. And so his novel set in Minneapolis, and it's about, um Commune that is trying to make a difference in a time when there's a president who's kind of crazy and game show host like and it's not Trump, but it's very similar to Trump and and so there's just this collective, the sun collective that's trying to do the right thing, but but the bigger it grows, the more kind of out of control it starts spinning. And then there's There's a whole nother thread with retired couple. Um they're trying to find their son and the wife has the spell Minnehaha falls, and when she comes to she couldn't Talk to her dog and her cat. And I mean it Z. I'm not describing it very well because there's so many different threads to this novel, but it is It's if you live in the twin cities. You'll recognize every single place in this book, and, um and it's a great story, too, And it's just perfect for our time because of the the Parallels between what's going on in the country now and what's going on in the book right in homelessness and this kind of crazy president. It's very good. I have some collective It's like when I try and describe what was my and Julius favorite book of the Year, which was thean visible life of Addie LaRue. When you say I don't know that. Oh, my gosh. Well, when you say out loud, it's about this. Woman and this is 17 or 16, 28 and you know, and she's a French village girl and she has to get married at 17. And then she makes she calls up the devil, basically and You know, it's like a faster impact. It's a time traveling. It's a romance. I mean, it's got all these things. But in the end of it all, it's just a big epic book and the way that, like the time traveler's wife was our discovery of witches, or, you know like that. It's just got a lot of Elements who, but yeah, you always feel like I am giving this justice. Well, I think any novel that you could just really sink into and you don't want to put it down and it brings you to this other place on Dit teaches you things. I mean, that's I'm a novelist. You know, that's a hard job being a novelist, I think, And you know, there's so many great ones out there. There have been so many great novels this year. I mean, say what you want to about 2020. The books were terrific. Yeah, I I agree with you. Um, I also thought, um The book. I Mean, Julia night, both love mysteries and thrillers, and she's been one of our favorite authors. But Ruth where, um, one by one, which takes place in the Swiss Alps and has this tech Angle That was just again a terrific page Turner from her She She does one or two books a year. And I don't know how she keeps the quality up when she writes his often is she does, But if you like mysteries, did you read Moon flower murders? By Anthony Horowitz. No Anthony Horowitz. Um, he He's the British writer. He wrote that his written quite a few serious for BBC, including Midsummer Murders. You might know that one um, soils war, he wrote Foyle's war. But he has written this. This is the second in the syriza of kind of story within a story mystery, So they're these big fat books, which is fun. I mean, you know, it's gonna last you a while and you start you start with this one story and then There's a manuscript, you know, and then you start reading the manuscript to that that one of the characters has written and that takes up like the whole middle part of the book, and it's a completely different mystery. And it was just sort of forget about you were reading a different mystery when you started the book, and now there's a Huge foot right in the middle of it, And then it goes back to the original story, and he doesn't really well. I mean, the whole thing is tied together, and there's a reason why he does this. It's not just, you know, plopping of book inside of a book, but it's great fun and makes the book like You know, It's like 600 pages long and like You can read that for days. Yeah, good. Makes a about that. Do you think? Do you think Charles Baxter We've given up on getting Louise on our show. I don't think she really does interviews..
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Update On The Leadership Conference In Sweden
"The world is ripe and ready for restarting and looking ahead. So where better to get a clear and uninterrupted view than from the eastern Swiss Alps and that is the setting for the chiefs. Monaco's. Conference which welcomes visionaries, founders and industry leaders for look ahead how business and indeed the whole world could move forward from here well. Is, tyler lay and he students all through the day's event at Subaru in summer. It's and I'm delighted to say he's taken a moment out of the conference to join us now to tell us what is happening where he is tyler apart from the obvious attraction from the chairlift right to an Alpine dinner, it must feel good to bring people together again. Good afternoon. Good afternoon Emma absolutely, and I think that has been one of the probably. Comment people just feel so good to be out in the world again and just meeting people in a setting which feels pretty normal I. I don't think there's much going on here that would make you think otherwise that we are still in in the midst of course cases rising in Europe, we have Orrin teams being imposed and and and borders also going up as well. So I I think that is. One of the people are just happy to be together and be listening to great ideas and and and I think also to be challenged. A little bit as well. We'll Tennessee little bit more about these challenges because people are coming together facing momentous challenges. What is it the world trying to focus on here? Well number, we just had a failed bomb nora failed bomb is the CEO of vitro. Of course, one of the world's most respected design brands I imagine in many many listeners right now are right likely sitting on a beatrice AU faux or chair or stool or in front of a desk. Here's a business, which is which is completely focused on the topic of what is going to happen to our city centers you know will work from home account for fifty percent of the workforce is going to be twenty percent. So we tackle that issue. It. With her and it was interesting. You know she was talking about are we may be moving into a world of spoke Yes. They'll be a main office in a city that will there almost almost More like owned and operated co working spaces where people come together. So that was one topic but then we just had a our he's the head of the the intermeshed. With the Red Cross and the and he was looking at at the current crises. The fact that we have a pandemic Emma but of course, get thirty messy parts of the world is he talks about this hasn't gone away and he's just a literally almost fresh off the plane from a mission in Mali, And Burkina into Hell region. What I find interesting is is the names of the people you've gathered that. We oversee have world of of of of vitro, but then. We have the head of security policy in the Swiss Federal Department of Defence Civil Protection and sport you mentioned now we have the head of the red. Cross. These are figures from the world of dealing with emergencies. Does that reflect the kind of times that we're in? Will it does because you're going to have an informed view about about risk and where the world is going. Then I think you do need people who are at the pointy end that that point he and might be how is a small but very economically successful. Country like Switzerland, how is it going to navigate geopolitical issues that wide Switzerland potentially need forty new fighter aircraft at a time when people talk of drones and and country, which is known as being neutral, and at the same time, you also want to hear from someone who's the head of risk for one of the biggest banks who can of course, apply some of these elements as well to a of. Course, the end consumer, the person who wants to go in byproducts from that that bank and how does that impact your day to day? How are we able to look ahead at the moment I mean is what we're talking about today stuff that we need to deal with at that pointy end in the next six months to one year or is there any sense yet that people can sink a little further ahead? Well I think actually North Alabama interesting because someone else oppose a similar question about short-term. What are you doing right now with marketing just how do you look at advertising? How do you promote a brand right now how do you stay top of mind and then what you do long term and her response with where we're a family company from Basel we have time and and so of course, we continue to develop an invest in great furniture and we and we take we take a long-term view. And yes you also have to be mindful of of the realities of up today as well. I mean is she's a little later on the conference to be talking about. The chiefs as a future when you talk about sustainability. And yesterday, the president of the European commissioners of a funder line was saying that we will rebuild our way out as a covert pundit DEMOC following an entirely green agenda. But when you have things like you know you're orderbook isn't as full as it should be your staff coming back from furlough and you're thinking, how am I going to make it through the next six months and people are saying actually you need to be green a you need to think about this you need to think about that. The priorities become quite quite challenging they. Absolutely. And I think that you know that that is one of the topics I mean, how much does you could talk about sustainability all you want but you know does. Your does your program, which of course has the best intentions is that we need to take a back seat for because you know that was going to involve retooling your factory. You knew that it was going to actually mean of course, upping the prices or accepting a more expensive supply chain, and maybe that has to get not kicking the grass necessarily, but it maybe has to drift out maybe three years I according to your plan and i. think that is also something we've heard you today is well, if if you're going to do these things aren't easy a lot of his. Let's walk at first before we talk and try to either talk green credentials are sustainability agenda and I think actually on that probably the one thing that I think is really coming out of the conference so far I'm as is. Being a by the let's let's let's invest in things that last And it really interesting to hear. You have MS failed I'm talking about you know if you go and buy an eames chair and I believe you're probably sitting in an email chair right now if I know it studio you're in. Those comes with a thirty year guarantee. Extraordinary and you know that has to be now and again you know is the entire chair perfectly sustainable no but it's not going to be in in five years either it's absolutely not in it's been comfortable for very long time finally looking into this afternoon. You're taking the floor talking to us about a few things that have caught your eye that you like and that if it's inspired you I mean we we have to be lifted out of this somehow what are you talking about them? Well. After lunch I I do a spin around the world and of course, the look at some things that yeah. Basic things that I that I experienced in everyday life, which which I think are are interesting that we we might need we might need more of so and I think probably one thing I was going to slide them. And you'll appreciate this. There's a lot of Austria and they're the world maybe needs a little bit. You know even though of course I'm standing in Switzerland at the moment. But if I if I look across the the mountains look across the border I know that Austria lies beyond and there's definitely whether it's brands whether it's the urban interventions that the world needs a little bit more Austria it full of wisdom of real and I'm just Sitting next to our affairs at a Christian mccue is half Australian I've never seen warranties thumbs up in all my days time. Thank you so much.
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Davos: Trump decries climate 'prophets of doom' with Thunberg in audience
"U. S. the president causing a stir at the annual meeting of the world's rich and powerful in the Swiss Alps the summit beginning with a focus on climate change the president's attacking climate activists to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial process of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse among those in the audience teenage environmentalists Greta took back who in her own speech moments later said world leaders in action is fueling flames by
WBZ Morning News
Trump addresses World Economic Forum in Davos
"President trump is no where near the nation's capital however he is thousands of miles away in the Swiss Alps he's spending the next several days at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland and the president gets things started with a keynote address this morning greeting world leaders on day one of the meeting he is rubbing elbows with the plan a strip planets richest people trying to drum up more investment in the
the NewsWorthy
Greta Thunberg and Trump could face off at Davos
"As president. Trump's impeachment trial. Al Gets going. He's thousands of miles away in the Swiss Alps. He's speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. It's an annual gathering of some of the world's most powerful business and political local leaders. And this year is its fiftieth gathering. NBC News says President. Trump's speech will likely focus on economic growth and highlight his recent trade deals with China Mexico and Canada data. It can also get a little awkward. A big focus of this year's forum is climate change so president trump might cross paths with teen climate activists. Greta Tune Berg who's also also speaking there the two don't really get along especially since trump rolled back. US policies that were meant to prevent the effects of Climate Change Fox News report. She's given trump icy stairs. There's that were caught on camera while he's mocked her on twitter forgetting Time Magazine's person of the year either way trump's visit will likely be pretty short only about two days hill likely back in Washington just as his impeachment lawyers begin their arguments.
WTOP 24 Hour News
New Senate Rules Released For Impeachment Trial
"Breaking news tonight new Senate rules of just been released for the effective start of president trump's impeachment trial we'll take you live now to W. T. O. P.'s Mitchell Miller on Capitol Hill and Mitch how with these new guidelines affect the trial Dimitri these are rules proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the indicate he wants a fairly quick start to the trial which begins in earnest tomorrow the call for opening arguments to begin on Wednesday and each side house Democrats and the White House would get up to twenty four hours to present their respective cases they have to do this over two days now since the trial is to start each day at one PM that could potentially take them up to one in the morning each day but they don't have to take all of these twenty four hours so we'll see how that plays out also this resolution must still be approved tomorrow by the Senate and it's already getting an angry reaction from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer who wants a vote on witnesses tomorrow at Mitch this follows the filing of a new breed from the White House that signals the legal strategy of the president's team can you tell us about that that's right Hillary the White House filed a one hundred and ten page brief that argues president trump did absolutely nothing wrong with his regard his dealings with Ukraine it also accuses Democrats of carrying out a rigged impeachment process and perhaps most significantly argues that the articles of impeachment against the president abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are not legally valid because there's no underlying lawbreaking Democrats have been quick to criticize those arguments and point to a recent government accountability office report that found the administration did break the law in its withholding of aid to Ukraine house Democrats also filed their own brief ahead of tomorrow's proceedings which will return with a bang as the trial gets back under way Mitch the resolution says the question of witnesses would be decided after senators have sixteen hours to question the two parties so it is it going to be kind of you know hours and hours of opening statements and arguments and then finally we learn about witnesses yes exactly this would play out the way that Mitch McConnell wanted to play out which is basically the roadmap of former president bill Clinton's impeachment he wants these opening arguments to take place then what happens is that senators actually have sixteen hours to present written questions now again it doesn't have to be that total sixteen hours but that's the limit then after all of that is done then there will be probably a very highly contentious discussion debate and vote on whether or not witnesses will actually be allowed in the trial and that will really determine how long this trial last whether it will go many many weeks or perhaps be wrapped up in two or three weeks all righty thanks so much Mitchell that's W. T. O. P.'s Mitchell Miller today on the hill were guard lists of when there are witnesses if they're a witness is president trump will not be watching from a TV inside the White House or in the Senate chamber he will be thousands of miles away at the Davos economic forum in the Swiss Alps he said to land tomorrow in Davos where he will speak before a group of executives financiers and foreign
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
Microsoft taking a $1 billion shot at climate change
"We begin today with the state of the planet which is also the Corporate Zeitgeist of the moment. The fancy executive Shindig in the Swiss Alps known as Davos us is underway today and for the first time a survey of participants in the World Economic Forum Davos official title ranked Climate Change as. Is there top set of business concerns also last week Larry thanks. CEO of BLACKROCK. The world's largest asset manager told business leaders that the company would prioritize more sustainable ainable investing and then on Thursday Microsoft announced plans to become carbon negative by the year twenty thirty and is investing a billion dollars in carbon removing technologies. Microsoft said. It hopes that by twenty fifty it could remove as much carbon as it has generated in its entire forty four year history. Sorry Lucas Joba is the chief environmental officer at Microsoft. And he's here to talk about this plan. Lucas thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me on my. You've pledged to invest invest a billion dollars and also to sort of pivot efforts in the direction of removing carbon and technologies. That can create resilience to end sustainability. But also so literally remove carbon and I wonder what some of those technologies are. Have you identified investment opportunities already. Well I think first and foremost evolution is already already provided some of the most powerful removal technologies of all through processes like photosynthesis. So some of the work that will be investing in. We'll be in what's called nature based solutions through forestation reforestation soil carbon sequestration. But also we'll be looking at Negative emission technologies like direct air or capture carbon capture and storage bioenergy. And what we're really motivated to do is to ensure that the capital that we put out is as additional well as possible is it a venture fund like are you expecting to get financial returns in addition to technology that you can use. We don't expect to. That is not a requirement of the fund. We would never turn that down. I'm sure but we also don't expect to lose money. How do we know so how? Many companies are announcing sustainability initiatives than carbon-neutral initiatives. And it's getting hard to Parse who is doing what you know like. How do we know L. either in the business community or as consumers that? This isn't greenwashing. Well I think it requires diligence on the side of Stakeholders to actually spend a little time. You know understanding what companies are actually doing. I think it also requires a lot of work on the side of corporations to be as transparent and as literal as possible. So there's a reason that we're using the term carbon negative because we are saying is we are going to go below net zero on our overall carbon emissions and we can provide an accounting the thing for that we can provide transparency into the portfolio of payments that were making to remove carbon. I think the best we can do is just to be clear eyed and cold. Aw hearted accountants about this and hold up. Our balance sheets is worth of carbon to be inspected. Let's also talk about incentives. Is this becoming a move like this on some level for every business you know we've seen institutional investors blackrock say. It's going to require. Companies Staff Sustainability Stain ability plans jet blue is going carbon neutral inciting flight shaming as part of the reason. I wonder if some of this is becoming a business. Imperative imperative whether it's to get ahead of regulation or even public sentiment. Oh absolutely I think it's surprising That that businesses can operate today without meaningful incredible sustainability plans. And I do not think there is a significant future. Sure where were businesses will be able to succeed without having plans and being able to show meaningful progress. I think the black rock letter was. It was a nice example. But that's just one of an incredible number of market signals that are being sent from both consumers customers regulators employees more in the blog. Post announcing this you said climate needs to become the world's next moonshot the tech industry. That's a phrase that has bounced around the tech industry but also it's an an industry that has promised to solve big problems should the rest of the industry following this example. I think the rest of the industry needs to do what everybody he needs to do. which is to look at climate and sustainability as what is which is the largest issue the largest most complex challenge that our species has ever faced? If you're a technology company I believe that you should be bringing technology solutions to the market. That does not mean that technology solutions are the silver bullet. It just means that whatever you as an organization are good at. That's what you need to be bringing. And and the urgency has has never been greater and then how about hiring in your blog post you cite not just consumer demand but also employees demand and has this also away. Does this have the added benefit of helping you attract and retain talent for whom this isn't big concern. Most definitely I mean when you look at any poll. In the demographic traffic that will be entering the workforce you know today in the next five to ten years moving forward. This is the number one issue they care about. If you're a technology company like Microsoft is then you're probably motivated by solving big problems with scalable solutions and and if that's your Mo then you've got to have climate and sustainability squarely within your focus and your employees. The more that you do that the more and the better the employee employee base that you're going to be able to bring in. It's just going to be an expectation and rightfully so and then finally just from a business perspective. Oh you know we've seen Microsoft employees already sort of asked the company not to do business to help. Let's say improve. The efficiency of oil and gas companies Microsoft has a seven year deal with Chevron Iran. Is there some possibility that you know the aggressiveness in this arena will make for some awkward dance partners. I don't know about awkward. I think think that these are conversations that need to be had and we are committing as part of our overall announcement to include conversations about an partnerships on sustainability and carbon reduction removal with all of our enterprise customers and major suppliers market sector independent. I think that if you take a scientific or a scientist's view of the problem you leave a lot of the passion and politics politics out of it and you just focus on the job that needs to get done and if you believe Lake we do that. This problem is one. That's going to require solutions. Sion's from everybody from every organization than it would seem strange to be turning your back on any particular Sector or or customer That said you know of course these. These conversations aren't always easy aren't always straightforward. But I think that that is long as you. Just focus on the problem at hand that needs to be solved we. We've always appreciated the partnership model at Microsoft and I don't see that Changing going forward with with any of our of our existing or future customers. Lucas Topa is chief environmental officer at Microsoft. Thanks so much for talking with me. Thank thank you molly. You can hear more about how technology can help us deal with climate change in our series how we survive that's online at marketplace dot org
Squawk Pod
World Economic Forum: What to Watch For
"Today's episode. The World Economic Forum in Davos for forty plus years the world's leaders in business and politics had convened in the Swiss Alps for a whirlwind four days of meetings interviews panels and performances Andrew. Have you packed yet for Davos pact. That's actually this. After this project I caught up with Andrew just just before we both boarded a flight commercial to this year's World Economic Forum so Davos is the home of the World Economic Forum which has a long history. This is a group group that started in about nineteen seventy-one so almost fifty years of this global event for people who've never been there before. How would you describe it? What could you expect to see in terms of our our coverage this is the super bowl for business and policy leaders probably the greatest density of CEO's and government leaders in one place all traipsing through the snow together over the course of three or four days and a lot of the business leaders are engaging engaging conversations that are maybe a little bit different than what they're doing from a day to day basis we have a lot of discussions about about capitalism a lot of discussions about environmentalism mm-hmm about poverty around the world What kinds of conversations do you expect to hear? I think the single biggest topic you're going to hear about out this year is the idea of sustainability and. I know that is almost a cliche at this point. And it's a topic that's been addressed before Davos in really started To some degree at Davos however there is going to be a sea change in the way businesses operate and that real cost when when it comes to sustainability. You're looking at companies like Microsoft already that are charging their individual units for their carbon use. And I think you're gonNA see that in a very material way across the board so much of this is actually being led by Europe and some of the disclosure rules. And I think you're GonNa you start to see more and more disclosure around carbon emissions the cost of those emissions what companies are doing on. Es G. and it's just it's the the topic that is being talked about in the boardroom. Is it strange to talk about that. At a at a Swiss ski resort that people have to fly and in some cases take helicopters to get to. What's tell me about that? Disconnect people love to poke fun at Davos and think of it as you know speed dating and over Champagne. And everybody's flying there. I have never been fond of the argument that everybody should swim to Davos or otherwise. They're hypocrites if you really think about how. The dialogue and businesses changed around stakeholders and shareholders and purpose. And all of these things that have taken place place over the last twenty or thirty years they started Indaba. And so you know you can laugh if you want. But I I think that actually really the most meet some of the most meaningful decisions that are happening at the intersection of business and policy are happening there over the years. Joe Becky and Andrew have interviewed the likes of Bano J. P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon His Royal Highness. Prince William the Secretary General Role of NATO and so many more but a consensus favorite for the squawk box behind the scenes team Andrews conversation with conservationist Jane Goodall at last year's event. Here's what Andrew told me about that interview a year later. Can we talk about what might have been my favorite interview that we did last year and that is with eighty five year old soon to be eighty six year old. Jane Goodall Maybe one of my most favorite interviews of my career. Oh that's awesome. I think definitely my most favorite image age. Somebody took a picture of me kissing. Jane's on head. Who took that picture Andrew? I think you did I did. Hey I think you did anyway. it's it's just it's an indelible image. I have long been a great admirer of Jane Goodall. Integrate I've had a great love affair with gorillas and monkeys and The environment and and being able to spend time with her and Talk to her about her own journey and how she sees the world today was really quite something. It was a very charming interaction. Action that you had with her I think that doesn't happen very often. When you're interviewing people especially the CEOS of the business leaders that we talked to in Davos you the other piece of it is? It's very rare and maybe I'm completely jaded but it's very rare. We're sort of starstruck and I was genuinely genuinely starstruck. Buy Jingle Jingle Bells raised about two hundred and fifty million dollars for her foundation for conservation work and environmental concerns and also also education about our planet and about The way we coexist with animals and I thought that message was actually really fascinating leading to bring to a meeting of the global elite. You know I think that what she does. She adds a sense sense of humanity empathy to a conversation among business leaders. That oftentimes missing that piece. Okay this is awesome. Thank you appreciate it.
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
Davos chief welcomes views of Trump & Thunberg.
"The head of the World Economic Forum says it's reassuring that US President Donald Trump and climate activists gratitude Berg will both return to quits annual meeting in Davos this year. Noting that concerns about the environment will be a key topic W. F. founder Klaus Schwab sees sees vast changes in business society and culture over the fifty years since he created the yearly gathering in the Swiss Alps which initially was a forum for business leaders. It is but now is a key. Stop for policymakers and activists as well following another year of extreme heat out of control wildfires and melting elting ice sheets. Environmental issues are considered to be the top five long-term risks confronting the global economy. WEF said last week citing survey of more than seven hundred fifty decision makers it said catastrophic trends like global warming climate change and the extinction of animal species. She's would top the agenda at the meeting. That begins on Tuesday. The forum is shifting its focus of recent years from how technology is transforming lives to the environment and responsible business practices that promote jobs fight climate change and work for social good
America Tonight with Kate Delaney
Kron Montana, Swiss Alps And Fox News discussed on America Tonight with Kate Delaney
"Fox News. An avalanche at a popular ski resort in the Swiss Alps injures at least four people one seriously avalanche hit Tuesday at a slip and Kron Montana. Officials say that more than two hundred rescuers are searching the scene overnight for as many as