In message <h6inak+6qej_at_...> "jeffrichard68" writes:
>> Incidently if we're using the Alps as a model people mainly live in
>> the valleys which may be relatively high up but aren't the dramatic
>> mountains we're talking about. When I was in the Austrian Tyrol many
>> years ago it was less rugged than most of the pennines, never mind
>> Wales.
>
>I'd be curious which part of the Tyrol you were in (I spend several
>weeks there each year in summer and winter).
I'm trying to remember the spelling - it's something like Myrhofen.
It's a ski resort in winter and a tourist resort in summer.
>I've also been to Wales and the Pennines; I was NOT impressed by their
>"ruggedness".
The Pennines aren't. My point is that the places people actually live
in the Alps aren't either.
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