Alps

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Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

"You imagine mountains, the Alps or something like that, and contrasts so strongly with the architecture of Paris, that it's just very surprising."

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

A new rail tunnel through the Alps will whisk passengers and freight from northern Italy to Munich at speeds of up to 155 miles an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

He talks about a trip he took one summer to the French Alps doing research with artisan cheese makers.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

The cataract of Saint-Jean-les-Eaux plunged between pinnacles of rock at the eastern end of a spur of the Alps, and the generating station clung to the side of the mountain above it.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman