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An Ode to Home and High Peaks With Alpinist Dani Arnold

To say the Swiss alpinist is well-traveled is like saying water is wet. But, he says, it’s also important to appreciate what’s right outside your front door.
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“In my life, I’ve seen many places all over the world,” Dani Arnold says (auto-translated), and you know he means high summits and mountain valleys. “But I think that, really, what’s closest to home isn’t appreciated enough.”

Of course, appreciating home is pretty easy for Arnold: it should be. Maderanertal, an alpine valley in the Swiss canton of Uri, is nothing short of an alpinist’s paradise.

So enjoy yourself as you pore over this love letter to the valley’s possibilities — from one of its closest and most avid admirers.

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