Best of Worlds: Life at its Alpine Limits

For 5,000 years, man has sought to inhabit the more accessible areas of Europe, but at its very heart, in the high zones of the Alps, there exists a world parallel to ours. The Alps are home to plants and animals that owe their success to an amazing capacity to live in conditions that for other species, humans included, would be barely tolerable. For them, however, this is everyday life.