ALBANIA

ALBANIAN ADVENTURE-Albania is filled with snow covered mountains in almost every part of the country, and yet, it is not really a ski country. While skiing developed into a major recreational pastime for the people of many countries in the years following World War II, forty years under the iron grip of Enver Hoxa and his uncompromising brand of communism, left this beautiful country without the ski lifts and other infrastructure necessary for the sport. Nevertheless, where there is snow and mountains, there can be skiing. Dutch Alpinist, Ronald Naar, who has climbed the "seven summits", crossed Greenland on skis, and other such adventures, joins me in a trip of discovery in this little known, undeveloped land in the heart of Europe. We go ski touring, meet kind, generous people in mountain villages, and learn that even without infrastructure, the Albanian people are also skiers, who hope and dream of a brighter future.

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