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Courmayeur & Mt. Blanc / Other Valle d'Aosta / Barbaresco Area / Milan / Rome |
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All the students from the Zephyr Intenational Music Festical |
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View from the top of the Italian Alps. Had we gone any higher, we would have been in heaven. |
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Italian Alps. Postcard material, no? |
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Courmayeur from above. |
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Front to back: Erica, Eri, Esther, Sung-Hea, & Sarah |
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The giant rock behind us is called "Le Dent du Geant" or " The Giant's Tooth". Some of these smiles also have giants' teeth. |
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"Don't look down!" Cable Car ascending from Courmayeur (~1,500m) to Mont Blanc (~4,800m). The ascent took about half an hour. Every 1,000 meters or so there was a stop, and the cable cars got progressively smaller. |
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Outside the cable car. Would you trust that thing to dangle safely 1 km above the ground? |
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Inside the cable car. Some were kinda nervous.... |
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Halfway up to Mt. Blanc. |
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Left to Right: Sera (Korean Pianist), Beeri (Israeli violist), & Vanya (Builgarian pianist). In front of the "foothills" of Monte Bianco (Italian/French Mountain) |
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Left to right: Sarah, Joann, Beeri, Sung-Hea; after a rehearsal on the way to dinner. We played the Schumann String Quartet in A minor in the first week. |
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A walking cello. |
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Street outside our Hotel Dolonne. |
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Three-star Hotel Dolonne, where we stayed for two weeks. This is where we slept, spent 1.5 hours waiting around the tables, and ate for .5 hours. |
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Stairs inside the hotel. No elevator, but plenty of heavy suit cases. |
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Cozy hotel room. |
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Another group picture, on the last night. |
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Courmayeur & Mt. Blanc / Other Valle d'Aosta / Barbaresco Area / Milan / Rome |
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