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Judd added that she recently walked another alp in Ticino, Switzerland, and went on to note that she has to rebuild her stamina.

Back at Hyak, a sunbreak offered a peek across the highway to the Gold Creek valley, with mighty Alaska Mountain at its head, as impressive as a Swiss alp and barely an hour from home.

Finally, when the ruse could go no further, the terminally ill Bauman jumped to his death from an alp.

An 1870s account, quoted in Into the Mountains, observes: “Mt. Lafayette is...a true alp, with peaks and crags on which lightnings play, its sides brown with scars and deep with gorges.”

“I was up there on my alp, very far removed,” says Meier, 35, who would go on to top roles at brands like Louis Vuitton and Balenciaga.