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How the English Made the Alps. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, Feb, 2001
How the English Made the Alps. Jim Ring. John Murray. [pound]19.99. 287 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5689-9. One of England's greatest achievements in the Victorian era, or one of her greatest blots, was the creation of mass tourism. A 'strong pound' and the use of cheap travel opened the world to English 'tourists'.
Among those parts of Europe established as tourist destinations were the Alps (in Germany and Italy but mainly in Austria and Switzerland) to which the more hardy visitors flocked in order to climb up mountains and to ski down them. The author, who is himself both a skier and a climber of the mountains, laments the effect twentieth century tourism has had on the Alps where there are now some 600 resorts and 41,000 ski runs 'capable of handling 1.6 million visitors an hour'. Mr Ring discusses not only how the English developed the Alps for sport and health but what lay behind the still unconquerable desire of some men to climb mountains in order to get to the top.
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