And Sun Peaks is no spring chicken when it comes to outdoor action.

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With 2, 000 hours of sunshine each year, plus buckets of snow blanketing the mountains of Sun Peaks, it is a wonder only 400 people claim year-round residence here.

BBC: Daily deal: Canadian mountain lodge

Long a little-known ski getaway, Sun Peaks Resort comprises three different mountains and more than 3, 600 acres of skiable terrain, making it the third largest ski resort in Canada.

BBC: Daily deal: Canadian mountain lodge

Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.

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In the Bolivian Andes, ice-blue glaciers crown amphitheatres of peaks, llamas graze quietly in the afternoon sun and the evening light fades into frigid mountain nights.

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Mountains tower over valleys lying deep in snow, their cathedral-spire peaks turning red in the rays of the setting sun.

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The glaciated peaks stand opposite, slowly turning orange as the sun sets, while in the morning the sun rises sharply from behind their jagged ridges.

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