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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • A Hua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of  Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A Hua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of  Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • Schloss (Castle) Vaduz perches high on the slopes above Vaduz, the capital of the tiny landlocked Principality of Liechtenstein. Prince Hans-Adam II is the current resident of the Schloss. The mountain peaks in the background have snow on their jagged edges but the castle itself is free of snow and rests on the slope on a cold but fresh day. Sunlight shines on the side of the old castle walls making this a fairy tale scene of another era of history. The Liechtenstein dynasty dates a royal lineage going back to 1140 under various lines of the Hapsburgs dynasty. Liechtenstein is bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in secrecy.
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  • Lemons grow on fertile soil on a smallholding located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944. Growing on land near Somma Vesuviana, the family have owned for generations would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Plant life growing in lava rock on slopes of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. 70 years after the last major eruption in 1944, nature reclaims the landscape with fragile yet resilient plant life. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • A sign post showing the direction of the ski slopes on February 16th 2018 at the Pheonix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.
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  • Vineyards and farm in the southern Eisack valley region near the South Tyrolean town of Klausen-Chiusa in northern Italy. We look down from the path leading to Säben Abbey high above the town. The slopes of vineyards of the central Eisack valley have a high mineral content of the soil, large fluctuations in temperature between hot, southern days and cool alpine mountain nights. According to the 2011 census, there are 505,000 inhabitants in south Tyrol.
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  • Local farmer tends crops in a fertile field on his smallholding, located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944.   Tending his plants on land near Somma Vesuviana, his family have owned for generations, he and his elderly family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, shows lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • In afternoon sunshine, autumn leaves and far away mountains with light cloud on their peaks are viewed from across a clear valley landscape, seen from the roadside near Levidi in Arcadia, between Tripolis and Argos on the Peloponnese region of south-western Greece. At 850m above sea level, pine forests and the slopes of the Mainalo mountains (a mountain range that spans about 15 to 20 from north to south (southwest of Tripolis to NE of Vytina), surrounds the town which lies to the west. The valley contains potato agriculture and mixed farming and extends up to near Kandila. The athlete called Androsthenes was from Maenalus, won gold at the ancient Olympics in 420 and 416 BC.
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  • Vineyards and farm in the southern Eisack valley region near the South Tyrolean town of Klausen-Chiusa in northern Italy. We look down from the path leading to Säben Abbey high above the town. The slopes of vineyards of the central Eisack valley have a high mineral content of the soil, large fluctuations in temperature between hot, southern days and cool alpine mountain nights. According to the 2011 census, there are 505,000 inhabitants in south Tyrol.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, shows lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Late orange sunlight plays across upper slopes of Sgorr Dhearg, a mountain in Glencoe, Scotland. With low clouds swirling around the peaks of these Scottish Highland hills, a shaft of sunlight has suddenly illuminated a lower ridge of the 1,024 feet peak and shows it to be surprisingly fertile, rather than barren rock. Grasses and native heathers grow in abundance to make it another popular mountain for walkers and more adventurous climbers. Beyond is a different story where dark tones reveal more sinister weather moving in. The climate in this region of northern Britain is unpredictably changeable and many rescues by RAF helicopter is often required to save those caught high and unprepared
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons (centre) and family surrounded by lemons in their garden in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius343-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Italian relatives on a rooftop of their home in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says one member. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Warning sign of risk on the western slope of Vesuvius with the urban sprawl of Naples in the distance. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, From the Introduction page of the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014).
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  • Warning sign of risk on the western slope of Vesuvius with the urban sprawl of Naples in the distance. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, From the Introduction page of the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014).
    vesuvius49-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons (centre) and family surrounded by lemons in their garden in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius375-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Luo Ming Wei (center), with his brothers carefully sample the tea that their factory is presently producing before it's sent away for sale. They wash the leaves in boiling water and then infuse the tea in fresh water for a few minutes before serving, Yi Wu village, Yunnan province, China.
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  • A line of wind turbines in the horizon on the top of Rhigos Hill Pass in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, United Kingdom. There are 76 turbines creating a 228M Renewable Energy Wind Farm.  The view is from Pen Y Fan Mountain and looks over the Rhondda Valley on a  misty day.
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  • A group of walkers traverse a dirt path descending from  Pen Y Fan in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
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  • Dramatic landscape view from the summit of Pen Y Fan down the steep incline across the valleys of Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
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  • Silhouette of people walking across the mountain ridge between the twined peaks of Pen Y Fan and Corn Du in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
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  • A group of adults and children walk along a dirt path descending from the summit of Pen Y Fan mountain in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Religious shrine and old lava on the crater edge of Vesuvius volcano, Italy. The Madonna is seen holding a baby Jesus with a smoking volcano in the background. Hardened lava rock has formed a new crust o the crater edge where visitors can view over to see the bottom of the abyss. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Crater geology of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Tourists' warning sign embedded in lava rock at the dormant crater edge of Vesuvius volcano. Telling visitors not to climb over fences and endanger their lives, the sign shows an exclamation mark. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Silhouette of children playing, walking and running along the mountainside of Pen Y Fan in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom, chased by an adult.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
    Wales-Brecon-Beacons-6086.jpg
  • Dramatic landscape view from the summit of Pen Y Fan down the steep incline across the valleys of Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
    Wales-Brecon-Beacons-5954.jpg
  • Walkers descend from the summit of Pen Y Fan mountain in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
    Wales-Brecon-Beacons-5859.jpg
  • A child with a rucksack and walking stick stands admiring the landscape view from Pen Y Fan mountain range in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
    Wales-Brecon-Beacons-5848.jpg
  • A line of wind turbines in the horizon on the top of Rhigos Hill Pass in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, United Kingdom. There are 76 turbines creating a 228M Renewable Energy Wind Farm.  The view is from Pen Y Fan Mountain and looks over the Rhondda Valley on a  misty day.
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  • On the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy, writer Polly Morland interviews volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano, Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo for the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Religious shrine and old lava on the crater edge of Vesuvius volcano, Italy. The Madonna is seen holding a baby Jesus with a smoking volcano in the background. Hardened lava rock has formed a new crust o the crater edge where visitors can view over to see the bottom of the abyss. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Crater edge of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Crater geology of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Crater geology of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • 1,890 meters (6,200 feet) above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka's Hill Country district of Nuwara Eliya, women tea pickers bend over trees to harvest Ceylon tea leaves that are taken to the white building on the left for processing. A carpet of velvety green tea bushes stretch into the far distance. This is the heart of the island's tea industry but was a pleasure retreat of the European planters due to its temperate English climate that produces the finest leaves for the country's economy. Teas from this highest region are described as the champagne of Ceylon teas. The leaf is gathered all year round but the finest teas are made from that plucked in January and February. The best teas of the area give a rich, golden, excellent quality liquor that is smooth, bright, and delicately perfumed.
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  • Looking downwards from a high vantage point on a hillside, we see one mountain-biker leading a second cyclist as they traverse across a sunlit mountainside near the hamlet of Masecha in the parish of Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. The late afternoon sun is low across the valley and there is a haze that partly obscures and refracts light over the distant landscape. There is snow on the distant mountain peaks but the countryside has the brown look of a snowless winter. Far off villages and hamlets hug the hillsides and golden light floods the scene. The tiny landlocked Principality of Liechtenstein is bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in secrecy.
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  • Walkers explore the twinned peaks of Pen Y Fan and Corn Du in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom. The rugged path connects the two mountain peaks.  <br />
 Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
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  • Dramatic landscape view from the summit of Pen Y Fan down the steep incline across the valleys of Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Powys, United Kingdom.  Pen Y Fan is the highest point in the Brecon Beacons hill and mountain range in South Wales. The National Park was established in 1957 due to the spectacular landscape which is rich in natural beauty and is run by the National Trust.
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  • Dry ski slopes at the Midland Ski Club at Ackers Adventure in the inner city area of Greet under Coronavirus lockdown on 8th May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
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  • With the rears of homes in the background, a man teaches a young boy to ride a bike on a grassy park slope, on 5th January 2017, in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth, England.
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  • A middle-aged lady pushes a child through an urban park that has a high-rise tower block of flats as a backdrop. Seen from Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London, the woman may be the infant's grandmother (granny) and possibly helping the child's mother during an afternoon walk among autumn leaves that lie across the grass. There is a downhill slope and the lady holds on to the buggy in case it rolls down the hill. The flats behind are lit in winter sunshine, warm air rising from an outlet, with only the upper floors visible to outdoor pedestrians. Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare (125.53 acres) park located between Brixton, Herne Hill and Tulse Hill. Brockwell Hall house and its grounds were acquired by the London County Council (LCC) in March 1891 and opened to the public the following summer.
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  • A group of country ramblers walk down a slope of grassland near Halstow on the Kent Thames estuary marshes, potentially threatened by the future London airport. In small groups, the friends descend the slop towards the river beyond. With the panoramic views the landscape could controversially become the site for London's estuary airport, built on reclaimed and marshland on the river Thames, east of the city. Current London mayor Boris Johnson is in faviour of this project to alleviate pressure from other airport hubs, regardless of wildlife (especially a nearby protected bird sanctuary).
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  • A group of country ramblers walk down a slope of grassland near Halstow on the Kent Thames estuary marshes, potentially threatened by the future London airport. In small groups, the friends descend the slop towards the river beyond. With the panoramic views the landscape could controversially become the site for London's estuary airport, built on reclaimed and marshland on the river Thames, east of the city. Current London mayor Boris Johnson is in faviour of this project to alleviate pressure from other airport hubs, regardless of wildlife (especially a nearby protected bird sanctuary).
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  • The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is a stone theatre structure located on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens. It was built in 161 AD by Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilla. It was originally a steep-sloped amphitheater with a three-story stone front wall and a wooden roof, and was used as a venue for music concerts with a capacity of 5,000. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • A detail of a 1930s house gable in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Well-painted white woodwork looks fresh and clean despite it being 90 years old. The property is shown as Essex House with the date of its construction as 1936. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it.
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  • The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is a stone theatre structure located on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens. It was built in 161 AD by Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilla. It was originally a steep-sloped amphitheater with a three-story stone front wall and a wooden roof, and was used as a venue for music concerts with a capacity of 5,000. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • A detail of a Victorian house gable in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Ornate blue painted woodwork looks fresh and clean despite it being 100 years old. The name of the property reads as Essex House and the date of its construction as 1896. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it.
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  • Children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era. The youngsters use the sloping architecture to slide down to the ground, and a drain. On the roof’s surface has been left the marks of many dirty shoes and scribbled graffiti. The kids are to grow up as free westerners in the newly reformed Germany, after the falloff the Berlin Wall in November 1989. This picture was taken in a few months after that event when the former DDR had been wiped off the modern-day maps. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
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  • The Ramp in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. This sloping street leading to New Street Station is known by locals simply as The Ramp.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Katie Summerhayes skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Katie Summerhayes at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Katie Summerhayes at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding skiing the jump at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • British freestyle skier Tyler Harding at Halifax Ski Centre on 20th July 2017 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Halifax Ski Centre is the spiritual home to many in the UK homegrown ski and snowboard community.
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  • Summer evening sunshine viewpoint from Holyrood Park towards Edinburgh city and its castle, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Two women chat on a street corner in the morning sunshine. Genoa, Italy.
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  • Spectators lie on the ground or look up to experience the art instillation by French artist Philippe Parreno, an experience of sound and light, in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, on 6th October 2016, in London, England.
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  • Children walk to school past a mud landslide caused by heavy rainfall along Route 6 on 20th September 2018 in Guwahati, Assam, India.  A motor rickshaw is parked by the side of the road, while another drives away.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic GDR in 1986.
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  • Wild poppies growing on the edge of Kentish agricultural farmland, on 7th July 2019, near Doddington, Kent England.
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  • In summer evening sunshine, walkers climb the last metres to the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park that overlooks the city of Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
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  • Summer evening sunshine viewpoint from Holyrood Park towards Edinburgh city and its castle, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • With a look of delight on her face, a four year-old girl stamps through fallen snow in a field near her home in Bielefeld, Germany. Wearing a vibrant red bobble hat and matching coat, she smiles towards the viewer with the pleasure of any child enjoying the excitement of fresh snow. Ski or sledge tracks can be seen at her feet but she is the only person in this empty landscape, as if she's walking on her own through the snowy hills. It is the winter of 1967 and the reds are very vibrant and dominant from the Kodachrome film used which also has a wonderful muted blue colour cast in the mid-tones giving the picture a chilly, wintry feel reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded and dated look.
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  • The big hotel complexes at night time in Puerto Rico bay, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Spain.
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  • Two girls sitting outside a cafe drinking fruit cocktails , Pecs, hungary.Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture.Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.Two girls sitting outside a cafe drinking fruit cocktails , Pecs, Hungary.Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.
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  • .Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.Sz?chenyi Square in Pecs, Hungary. .Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.
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  • An elderly Spanish lady walks towards a strong setting sun that shines through an old medieval street in the beautiful town of Valldemossa in north-west Majorca, one of the Balearic Island. She leans forward, striding with a quick pace while holding a traditional fan called an abanico. Valldemossa is at 400 kilometres above sea level, the highest community on the island and in the middle of the valley of Sierra de Tramuntana. Part of the village goes up into the mountain slope and sits on the slopes of the Tramuntana mountains. The town gained some sort of fame when Polish composer Frederic Chopin came and stayed at the Carthusian monastery (Cartoixa Reial) with his lover George Sand in the winter of 1838-39.
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  • The forested slopes of the mountains near to the Brokpa village of Thagthi, Eastern Bhutan. Though the government policy is to maintain at least 60% of the land as forest, the present ratio is higher, with more than 70% of the country covered in forests of conifers and mixed broadleaf species.
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  • A woman rides a bicycle along the pretty shopping street of Ferencesek Utcaja (street).Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.
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  • Street scene in Plaka. Plaka is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture. Plaka is built on top of the residential areas of the ancient town of Athens. It is known as the 'Neighbourhood of the Gods' due to its proximity to the Acropolis and its many archaeological sites. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • Landscape view looking towards the lower slopes of Pen yr Ole Wen beside Llyn Ogwen lake on 17th September 2020 in Pont Pen-y-benglog, Snowdonia, Wales, United Kingdom. Snowdonia is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of 823 square miles in area. It was the first to be designated of the three national parks in Wales, in 1951.
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  • The entrence to the New Calton Burial Ground on the 9th November 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland in the United Kingdom. New Calton Burial Ground was built as an overspill and functional replacement to Old Calton Burial Ground and lies half a mile to its east on Regent Road, on the south-east slopes of Calton Hill.
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  • Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range in the western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Basin and Range Province.Many groves of the remarkable giant sequoia are found scattered along the moist, west-facing slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains, between elevations of 5,000 and 7,000 feet.
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