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Mountain guides are becoming rare

Being outside and showing people around Switzerland's magnificent scenery: it sounds like the makings of a dream job, yet not enough people are showing interest in becoming mountain guides anymore. Swiss Public Television, SRF found out why. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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