🇬🇧 Campaigners fight to preserve amazing time-warp Swiss-style village in Canada, built for legendary guides from Switzerland who transformed mountaineering in the Rockies
Edelweiss Village is located near the town of Golden in British Columbia
It was built in the early 1900s for the legendary Swiss Guides
They were brought over from Switzerland to guide hotel guests
They introduced European-style hiking and mountaineering to the Rockies
The hamlet is in the National Trust's 'Top 10 endangered places' list