Destination: The Alps
Salon – In “Solo Faces,” the American Rand climbs the French Alps at Chamonix for feelings both aesthetic (“The most hazardous attempt is made beautiful by its rightness”) and emotional, for the “feeling of invulnerability as if the mountain had ordained
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Artist to brush up mountaintop
Washington Times – Snowcapped Mont Blanc rises to 15,774 feet in the French Alps. According to the 43-year-old artist, the purpose of his Mont Blanc project is to raise questions such as: “Who owns nature? Who owns the water in the lakes, the snow on the ground
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17 (15) Grahame Whateley £300m (£225m)
Birmingham Post – In addition to Castlemore’s charitable contributions Graham Whateley, who has homes in Worcestershire, the French Alps and Majorca, takes an interest in the Duke of Edinburgh Outward Bound scheme and is a supporter of Terry Waite’s charity for
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David Katz
United Jewish Federation of Tidewater – With much apprehension, I made my way to the village of Villard de Lans, a picturesque village nestled high in the French Alps. There I was told that the Catholic priest in the village, was a strong supporter of the resistance movement and that I
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Into Great Silence
Catholic News – The aptly named “Into Great Silence” (Zeitgeist) is German filmmaker Philip Groning’s poetically filmed profile of a Carthusian monastery, Le Grande Chartreuse, secluded in the French Alps, and discreetly follows the cloistered monks in their daily
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Solana Beach publisher Paul Diamond has published his second book
North County Times – Randall Stafford, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who couldn’t resist cycling the French Alps before his impending kidney transplant. Diamond, 36, said his new collection of cycling essays is already off to a good start. “We’ve got
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Maddy Lomas: a diary of a girl living in France 