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Fan of the Dolomites |
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| The “fan club” of the Dolomites is huge. Le Corbussier, the French architect, once called the Dolomites the “most beautiful natural architecture of the earth”. The political head of South Tyrol, Luis Durnwalder, described them as “unique visiting card”. The artist Albrecht Dürer rendered parts of the Dolomites eternal on his aquarelles. The privy councillor Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote about the “unusual colour of these mountains with their beautiful, unique and steep shapes” during his journey across Italy. The Viennese mountaineer Emil Zsigmondy called the Dolomites a “precious jewel of the Alps”. Reinhold Messner, native South Tyrolean and the first mountaineer with all 14 8000 -metre peaks in the rucksack observed: “The Dolomites are not the highest mountains in the world, but definitely the most beautiful ones”. And the South Tyrolean Hans Kammerlander, who also spent years in the icy heights of the Himalaya keeps repeating how happy he feels every time he comes home again to the “warm and wonderfully steep faces of the Dolomites “after one of his expeditions. |
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