Now a new iPhone app is helping visitors to the Swiss Alps understand how climate change is altering the landscape.

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The hiking couple had unwittingly rediscovered a long forgotten short-cut for travellers and traders across the barrier of the Swiss Alps.

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In one week, I will be in picturesque Davos, a ski town nestled in the Swiss Alps, covering the World Economic Forum for Forbes.

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Last month, friends of two British skiers who went missing in Verbier in the Swiss Alps used Twitter to find their friends' cell phone numbers.

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Once we spent the holidays high up in the Swiss Alps, where my body stiffened at the sight of deep hollow chasms emptied out of the rocky earth.

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For one of the prettiest drives in the region, follow the Maggia River out of Locarno through the idyllic Valle Maggia into the southern slope of the Swiss Alps.

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As for his annual pilgrimage to the Swiss Alps?

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The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig Christine, a young girl working in a postoffice in post-World War I Austria, has her life transformed when a rich aunt invites her to a resort in the Swiss Alps.

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While many remember dramatic Swiss Alps ski scenes with machine guns setting off avalanches, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" opens on the beaches of Portugal, with James Bond staying at the Hotel Palacio overlooking the Bay of Cascais.

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The Swiss justify their new road charges partly by the high cost of maintaining roads in the Alps.

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