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The mountains, islands and countries we have made pieces of, and what makes their terrain worth a closer look.
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Etna's highest point has changed crater twice in three years and risen more than forty metres. On the summit craters, Valle del Bove and how you survey a mountain that is being rebuilt.
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The vertical walls around Cortina d'Ampezzo are the remains of Triassic reefs. On the rock called dolomite, the 2009 World Heritage listing and why the shapes are so sharp.
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Norway's largest ski resort does not sit in a valley but on a free-standing dome. On the shape of Trysilfjellet, the figures that differ between sources, and what the topography explains.
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Hemavan is the southern end of the Kungsleden trail and the gateway to Sweden's largest nature reserve. On Vindelfjällen, the Syterskalet valley and why the village sits where it does.
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1,797 metres, the highest Swedish summit south of the Arctic Circle, and a glacier in the shadow of the face. On Helagsfjället, the glacier and the walk in from Ljungdalen.
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4,810 is what the map says, but the summit is surveyed every two years and the figure moves. The rock beneath the snow sits at around 4,792 metres - and some forty metres to one side.
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The shape is no accident. Four glaciers ate inward towards the same point from four directions, and the summit rock came from a different continent than the base.
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A tribute to Åre, from the summit of Åreskutan down to the village by the lake. On the elevation difference that gives the resort its runs, and how the terrain became a handmade 3D piece.