A male hiker is walking towards a wooden cross on a mountain meadow in the Val d'Anniviers in the Swiss Alps. The sun is shining bright, temperatures are high. This is halfway the Haute Route, a classic hike between Chamonix in France and Zermatt in Switzerland. For fit hikers it takes ten days.

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