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In the evening we go out to see the start of the Patrouille des Glaciers. This is a 53km ski/mountaineering race from Zermatt to Verbier. Evidently they don't think that running/skiing/climbing 53km in the daylight is hard enough, so they start at 10pm. The fastest competitors will finish in around 7.5 hours!
Apparently the race started during WWII, when the Swiss army wanted to test the abilities of its soldiers, was cancelled for 35 years when some of the competitors were killed falling down a crevasse on a glacier, then reinstated in 1984.
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