“There are treasures under the snow, abandoned over the centuries by smugglers when they played cat and mouse with the police.
At least, that's what is said.
» Nicola Ciapponi chats while racing up the slope in chamois leather to Pizzo Tambo, 3,200 m.
We follow it as best we can, equipped with snowshoes and avalanche transmitters, at the exit of the tiny hamlet of Montespluga, in the Italian Alps, very close to the Swiss border.
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Nowadays, tourists come here to find a different type of treasure.
A 100% natural space for skiing, hiking or even spending a night in a tent.
In this ghost village, a resort without a ski lift opened in January 2023 called Homeland, in English in the text.
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