The Putnam Global Consumer fund rose 11.4% and the Alpine Global Consumer rose 9.3%.
The Alpine regions within Switzerland are important areas for tourism, biodiversity and water supplies.
One has been produced as long as humans have farmed the Alpine meadows.
The alpine village has been a favourite with the British since Victorian times.
The IRU is based in Switzerland - I think we're quite sensitive to the importance of protecting the Alpine environment.
The Delphi Mountain Resort offers balcony views of the scenery from many of its rooms in the alpine-inspired building.
One of the most stunning is Sestriere, site of the Alpine skiing venues and surging skyward at more than 6000 feet.
The Southern Utes had been to Vail before, including in 1999, the year the mountain hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships.
They have also drawn heavily on the magnificent unpublished pictorial archives at the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club of Great Britain.
Resorts across the Alpine region have had to postpone opening and even those that are open have a limited number of usable slopes.
One was overheard by investigators to boast proudly that he and his men could command 11, 000 votes from towns in the Alpine foothills.
Experts date this tale as far back as the Bronze Age, when warmer climates meant people could survive high up on the Alpine plateau.
Besides the vegetables, they held a piece of bread, a pocketknife, sometimes the Alpine Club guidebook, and always a spool of wire for emergency repairs.
The Alpine Ibex, for example, was almost hunted out in the 19th Century, its population reduced to just a small group of survivors in Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park.
The wines of Savoy, in the Alpine region of eastern France, have become so popular in recent years that they may be elevated beyond the miscellaneous category sometime soon.
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Stop at Ristorante La Froda in Foroglio for lunch (do not miss the polenta), snap a few pictures and soak in the alpine landscape before heading back to the lake.
Simonetta Sommaruga, Switzerland's justice minister, said adopting the new rules would be a "serious challenge" for Swiss business, but expressed confidence that the Alpine state's fabled competitiveness would not be undermined.
Meanwhile, Miller has delayed his return to Europe for the Alpine ski racing season in order to stay at the bedside of his brother, who was critically injured in a motorcycle crash last week.
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Lemerre called 12 players to a training camp in the Alpine resort of Tignes this week but did not say whether they would all be in his list of 22 for next month's finals.
Germany's rhetoric might have angered Luxembourg, but it will put the alpine principality's crucial vote in the spotlight and make it harder for Jean-Claude Juncker to block the vote without gaining much attention, Murphy said.
Lance fans who made it to the finish line at the top of the alpine ski resort of Courchevel went wild as their hero took back the leading rider's yellow jersey in a ceremony just after the race.
During the 1930s, the firm's eponymous founder built recreational facilities for workers employed in his factory in Trivero, the small town at 800 metres (2, 600 feet) in the Alpine foothills north-east of Turin where the company is still based.
Ms Behrens also says the Avanti proposal would contradict an earlier referendum which made it part of the Swiss constitution to aim to transfer as much freight transport as possible to rail and not to disturb the Alpine landscape for transport.
My train is chugging up the snow-carpeted mountain to the Alpine resort of Davos, once a refuge for consumptives and now, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, home-from-home for the world's more conspicuous consumers (bankers, hedge fund managers, private-equity stars, inter alia).
Improvements to equipment have led to reductions in injury rates, for instance the introduction of quick release mechanisms dramatically cut the number of lower leg fractures, while smarter ski design is helping the downward injury trend in the alpine disciplines, according to ISSS statistics.
Joshua Duitz, a fund manager at the Alpine funds in Purchase, NY thinks part of the solution is for the US to pass infrastructure-friendly legislation, like a new highway bill, that would create public-private partnerships allowing for privatization of American roadways and bridges in need of serious upgrades.
In this respect, the legacy of IGCP 567 will be a strong community of practitioners who are well disposed towards archaeoseismology, advocating a holistic approach that will eventually contribute to the establishment of an essential earthquake culture in the Alpine-Himalayan region, occasionally confronted with the inevitable earthquake catastrophe.
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They had shaken hands and he had saluted and gone out to the staff car where the old man was waiting asleep and in that car they had ridden over the road past Guadarrama, the old man still asleep, and up the Navacerrada road to the Alpine Club hut where he, Robert Jordan, slept for three hours before they started.
The wins have moved the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association considerably closer to a goal that, when first set in 1997, seemed like a fairy tale: to produce the best Alpine team in the world.
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