As many iconic alpine huts are becoming dilapidated, harder to reach and, occasionally, wiped out altogether, Wilderness asks if private funds really are the way forward for high altitude bunkhouses Backcountry huts began life for all sorts of reasons. Some were accommodation for musterers, others allowed deerstalkers a place to lay their head between kills, while others were […]
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