The program with a little look for what. I see adventure is taking a holiday on noise gets back and i ended. Up breaking the ice looking through icelands second largest glass here. And decadence and of those skiing in one of the spots lands most exclusive result. If you want snow on the eyes there is no better place to guarantee its than spitsbergen this is the largest of a group of no wage an island in the arctic ocean the winter that last for nine months of the year and its so high up that they dont see daylight free over two months of the heat still it is increasingly popular with tourists who want a Winter Wonderland experience yes if you want to spot a polar bag i want to dog sled and trek inside the glass only one day and spitzbergen is the place to. Martin hopman mo takes the brakes off his dog sled. Whos danish runs the largest husky farm on spitsbergen island off way between norways north cape and the north pole dog sled tools are very popular here. Monk started his following six years ago in two thousand and eleven with sixty dogs today he has over two hundred fifty there a cross between the alaskan hosty and the greenland dog. Countrified more than what they were and they also like to think. Less aggressive. Is already. There is certainly. Known aggression towards humans is important considering the large number of tourists who visit the farm every day in want to pet the animals. The husky farm is located at the end of the islands main road which is a good ten kilometers long haul in all the archipelago that spitzbergen is part of has only forty kilometers of roads even though its surface area is one half times as large as denmark. Fewer than three thousand people live on spits back and most of them in the capital long year b. M. Named after an american who founded a Mining Company here in nine hundred six coal mining used to be spits baggins major source of income now its tourism science and research are also becoming increasingly important. More than seven hundred students have been rolled for sciences at the nor the most university in the wont and more and more young people are getting interested. The number of tourists is also rising in twenty sixteen there were one hundred forty five. And overnight stays eight percent more than the Previous Year along with dog sled tours the most popular activities all snowmobile excursions. Vacationers can also go out on miniature expeditions on boats small and launch. Its not all that unusual to see the king of the yacht take the polar bear spotting one of them is the dream of many spitzbergen tourists. There are an estimated three thousand pota bands on this group of islands. Back to the hospital this is also a good example of how spitzbergen is being transformed more and more people are working in the Tourism Sector point the farm has seventy guides including greg hall pocket money a biologist from germany. Ive always lived somewhere where its cold i like cold weather and snow this thing is that the longer it lasts the better so its great that the winter season is so long here that if youre lucky you can go dog sledding from october to late june its perfect. One of the most beautiful dog sled tours goes to the scott tunnel glacier. After three hours they arrive at their destination a small home in the middle of the glacier. The hole goes down thirty metres leading to a labyrinth of bizarre ice tunnels that snow will to dog into the glacier last summer. They provide a look at the inside of the Glacier Ventures like this are attracting creasing numbers of people to be arctic. Spits back in the gateway to the north pole and the landscape straight out of a fairytale. Just ahead some people prefer the cold weather to the wall of the sun and many people cheers to living colder climates whereas a couple who search for twenty years to find the perfect spot to build their dream home they found it on a peninsula in northern norway the shell like home is now that Perfect Little sanctuary where they can go to hibernate whenever they so desire. The link in an insulin lies north of the Arctic Circle this holiday home is perfectly suited to the cold climate in northern norway where snow covers the ground for roughly half the year it was built by hot bod creamer tova felt hello welcome to my cabin come inside. The heart of the building is the living area with its floor to ceiling windows which afford a stunning view of the water this two hundred square meter bungalow is hot board kramers and over felts weekend retreat the retirees spend as much time here is possible i and. Most assignments and looking at the city. We are relaxing more we can carry that book we can. Be a more outside. During the winter months the sun doesnt rise for too long months to compensate for the lack of daylight that has decorated the house and vibrant colors and fitted it with cozy carpets and blankets a Geothermal Heat Pump and a wood fire ensure cozy temperatures. I can stand. Near the wall from the fireplace. Its a very giving me i love it and its. The house also boasts a sauna that can be used all year round. I go in this house and i never said that there were we are here to take this out with the family to get our daughter. And they also. We have a yeah we warm us here. Have a very coffee the bedrooms face the heath behind the cabin till the fells and her husband searched for twenty years until they found this spot to build their cabin construction began in two thousand and seven their idea was to build a cabin that harmonizes with its environment yet also provides a warm haven amid these harsh climes. I like the structure. In their warm feeling they wanted to. Be like i said. You see it oh i own all there. On the outside. The cabinets wooden structure was neatly fitted into the fewer its rock formation its malls are lined with low who wind current. Architects norris jenison designed the cabin and chose materials like wood which will withstand the harsh arctic climate for many years. Its untreated so it has a great ice look but still its a warm work and on the outside see dark which of course in this climate also is. Very well suited. And turns your silver grey in time. Yet towards the fountain Hubbard Kramer spent plenty of time outside if the weather permits it sometimes they can observe reindeer or whales at sea and in the winter they sometimes see the Northern Lights this is why they love being so far north. Its the better and not the temperate or. They are the surroundings we have here. That i havent seen. Or to over felt and hope are kramer spending time in their cozy cabin north of the Arctic Circle is bliss no matter what the seas are. Now of course we all know that Global Warming is affecting our sea levels and causing a lot of ice surrounding the poles to meant iceland is europes northernmost country and we cant do a show on ice without going there but they are seeing the effects of Climate Change fast hand the long yoko glassie it is shrinking this is the countrys second largest class and in a bid to try and raise awareness of the issue a tunnel has been built to take tourists into the heart of the ice a Magical Experience but one that wont last forever. The journey to europes longest ice total passes through a snow covered wilderness. Long your code is iceland second biggest glacier it measures fifty kilometers long and up to twenty kilometers wide but Global Warming means its shrinking fast until recently it was only possible to view the glacier from above. Going inside was a purple inch reserved for scientist. But last year the glacier opened to the public. Again this is going to be here and what exactly are you going to be is on your feet so you dont. Target so few of your odins daughter is taking twenty visitors from the u. S. And china into the glacier. Seismic activity and Glacier Movement monitored regularly to make sure its safe to enter the project is the first of its kind many people were skeptical at first but its proved the real hit with tourists we always believed in the projects. We thought it was a good idea it was a bold idea but the a good idea in a way it was exciting and we had full faith in the project all along. Planning and preparation for the tunnel took four years while the actual building phase lasted fourteen months the project team was made up of blazer experts engineers geologists and architects. The tunnel lies about thirty meters beneath the surface. For sophia showing visitors to beauty of the glacier is a labor of love. Its. Just like lots of things going on all the time im not the kind that you know its used to want to sit at a desk and work there. Dose a day because i get bored he said. If you would take this entire case and melted down. Melted down and put it over Manhattan Island who would have water that was three feet on the street. And also look at the lines in the walls. Just like if you would cut open a tree you can read the years of the buffalo. Its not quite the same with the glacier but you know you can read the weather. Whatever brotherhood has been you know from the was fairly good lives maybe there was a crisis in summertime or maybe here in. The wintertime. You know. So that is really cool. The jury is just over half a kilometer long. Every now and then i future prevacid opens up that allows visitors to peer deep into the heart of the glacier. Iceland splicers have shrunk by ten percent over the last two decades if that trend continues there wont be much left of longer code by the end of the century. Organizers hope that opening up the glacier will serve to raise the alarm showing visitors from around the world the precious beauty and fragility of this ice clad natural wonder. Well the ever changing weather patterns have brought less snow to the german hotz mountains than in past years too but that doesnt stop the views from being spectacular we hoped on a train to the highest peak in the region to discover this magical landscape. Days with light like this are rare in the hearts mountains in winter the sun is rising over northern germanys highest peak the pock. The weather is putting on quite a show for the meteorologists at the park in weather station the morning slows way below freezing for record breaking. It was like a dream the skies were really clear this morning in the trees where i stop when the sun came up everything was bathed in pink light it was minus seventeen degrees celsius and with the snow minus twenty two it crunched under my feet a beautiful winter morning. And on top of that there was a spectacular view. From which he told me the visibility is fantastic i can see for around one hundred seventy kilometers so old wage of the fogels bag and has was added to the run in the us a cup i couldnt be more beautiful and says i. When the weathers this nice visitors want to take the proper Narrow Gauge Railway to the summit. During the winter nine trains a day check through the Hearts National park on their way to the top at one thousand one hundred forty two meters above sea level many tourists enjoy wandering around on the patents plateau. And other visitors like benno schmidt. Choose to walk the nowness puff benno hes hiked appear on the list every day since german reunification. Morning mr schmidt good morning or are you already coming back down oh yes notion of a cold when the weather is nice i have to go up the hill its just ideal or is optimistic about winter in spite of Climate Change. Begin to windows just drop things here most of it comes later in february and march them with a lot snow drifts that are up to five meters deep but thats last year there werent many but i hope this winter will be a better one for my eight thousand hike if pouring rain it was still an experience nevertheless. For died and after doing it a thousand times i thought about going every other day but no ive got to go up there. On the worm back opposite the park its just as pleasant here most of the ski slopes open in january. Now more and more operators have had to use snow making machines to keep things running. Just the trees and its really hard work and we do it through the night you know its a lot to keep such began area covered in snow with mcleish my and off to bone. The most beautiful of winter days has come to an end in the hearts mountains but with some luck theyll be more like it before spring. I want to know more about european lifestyle and culture visit euro max on facebook. Youll find highlights from our programmes. Three hundred sixty degree videos of the most beautiful places in europe and snapshots taken by our reporters take an exclusive look behind the scenes at how the programme is produced and follow us on facebook live. We love it when fans visit our Facebook Page and give us. Your feedback visit d w euro max on facebook. Went as full as the popular all over the world and the swiss region of the house is always busy at this time of year that both is just one of the many resorts the thriving right now thats because long before it became known for its Winter Sports people came to the town for health and wellness we take a look back at the history of this town and how its a vote over the years. Davos is a swiss Winter Sports resort nestled in the alps it attracts snowboarders and skiers on around three hundred twenty kilometers of peace thats. Home to a population of about thirteen thousand votes is a blend of traditional and modern one of its newer landmarks is the luxury Hotel Intercontinental which opened in two thousand and thirteen also affectionately called the golden egg. But it was the Congress Center built in one nine hundred sixty nine that put davos on the map as a location for International Business and medical conferences the best known is the annual World Economic forum. Is what he and. Professor talk of the founder of the World Economic forum with professor dr klaus schwab and he decided it should take place in davos before its very he wanted it spirit its climate to help shape the. Whole it was a well known Holiday Resort and he hoped its atmosphere with the help participants discuss matters in an open minded way but it was to get thats the background to the spirit to this day when the president of the small Mountain Village of davos first became known internationally in the late one nine hundred century as a health resort. Sixteen hundred meters above sea level its dry pollen and might free climate made it ideal for as maddox and tuberculosis patients. Shattered been all at that time in europe one in seven people died of tb they want just sick they actually died of it it was a terrible play by one of. Wealthy patients would stay in a luxury Wellness Clinic such as the shots out which opened in one thousand nine hundred and is now a hotel. Many spent months if not years here following a Strict Health regime five meals a day cold showers and hours of rest and recuperation in the fresh air german writer thomas mun described the experience in his nine hundred twenty four masterpiece the Magic Mountain he was inspired by his wife caucus day in davos. The devices kareena but so when the u. S. Wife would tell him about characters who are often very eccentric. And he actually met some of them himself in the form did involve yes yes i mean originally set out to write a novella fisheye but it turned into a thousand page novels on one thousand a Magic Mountain coral mom give all of them even that so what about. Beyond the shots out is this trailer back the first slow skiing trail in switzerland no snow cannons are used here its one hundred percent natural and theres no snow the trails remain closed. At the local Winter SportsMuseum Visitors can explore the history of davos as a ski resort which came about mainly due to its popularity as a health resort. On the sea and the dead on the nj both but the enough that it was mainly the british helped establish the Winter Sports industry and of course specifically ski the father its the will to how we were very fortunate that surround our conan doyle came here because i was the man who wrote the column and value of audio other chiefs day the film fane that he visited an eight hundred ninety three and it was thanks to him that the sport became so popular that what gets than i get these. Folks to marry him off to. Not only famous writers but artists too were drawn to the mountain in a center of doubles is the and stupid big kitchen a museum the german expressionist painter lived in davos from one thousand nine hundred eighty. Until his death in one nine hundred thirty eight and he created some of his best known paintings here the museum houses some Twelve Thousand art works by care about half his entire body of work doubles also has color nerida lights on offer local restaurants serve up traditional swiss fare cheese and fruit bread as well as specialties such as bun there fleiss or air dried meat. So its an offer on for the better quality. But no fly she told because villagers originally had no way of refrigerating the food. They had to preserve it so they dried it if that meant they had plenty of meat to eat throughout the winter so to go with this issue with the. Voters has come a long way since then the last one hundred fifty years have seen the small town in the swiss alps evolve into a center for sport major congresses and culture. Last glimpse of ice and when to show for today well weve got with the highlights of the week its immoral featuring a taste of winter from all of our special shows and if you did miss any of them this week and want to catch up then you can find them on our website d. W. Dot com forward slash lifestyle is just a lie that many of them will be on our Facebook Page as well happy weekend to all of you and ill see you again tomorrow. Coming up in europe max highlights the dangers and what contributions to that closeted five look on life. Plus the man who just cant get enough speed in his life. And enjoying dessert all my. In australia those stories and more. Of your. Schools close. And feagles house of music right this time with vocal sensation. And rock. Concert. Some nostalgia is inevitable as you know you feel absolutely no need to see. These two. Freedom of expression and a value that always has to be defended and new. All over the world. Of Freedom Freedom of art. 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Humans love interaction and sometimes you dont have a if youre about well provided thats great theyre going to replace people at manufacturing theyre going to replace doctors and lawyers theyre going to replace people in jobs you wouldnt think they can if all the work is being done by machines what it was through that they try and keep Getting Better and better education and taking more and more advanced jobs where do they end up doing other things making art having social interactions with each other are we going to have enough humanity to make it possible for everyone or some people are going to say i want everything i ever read. So you guys have to be poor and die it allows individuals to discover their humanity they have to learn a new meaning for life and new things to do thats a social revolution and hopefully we can move too slowly. 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