Fresh air can be NOT free!
Does a breathing cost? You may say not, but a Swiss company is selling cans of 'fresh air' to tourists in order to ease their altitude sickness.
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Swissbreeze offers cans of oxygen costing £19 each. The company writes, "Our goal is to provide you with the best, most pristine and freshest Swiss canned air, gathered in the most beautiful and remote lake and mountain regions.
"Our Swiss made product will reanimate your spirits, clear up your mind and let you feel a breeze of Swiss serenity."
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The air is purified and filtered and another company Krähnemann, launching its first bottled air in China in 2013, said that people inhale 30 to 50 breaths for every hour they spend outside helping them "relax and calm the lungs".
Such kinds of products has been being popular in many areas like Taiwan, Canada and China. The businessman claimed10 million cans have sold in 10 days as pollution levels climb to record highs.
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, who won a bronze medal in the sport’s first Olympic race, died after being trapped in an avalanche, the Swiss ski federation said Tuesday. He was 50.
Kestenholz was third in snowboard giant slalom at the 1998 Nagano Olympics — a debut event that became a story of the games when Canadian gold medalist Ross Rebagliati fought to keep his title after a positive test for cannabis.
The Swiss racer competed at two more Winter Games, was twice snowboardcross champion at the X-Games and continued a professional career in extreme sports.
Kestenholz was snowboarding with a friend who was skiing Sunday in the Lötschental valley of Valais canton (state). The avalanche started at an altitude of 2,400 meters (7,900 feet) for unknown reasons, Valais police said in a statement.
Kestenholz was trapped by snow and helped by his friend before being airlifted by helicopter to the hospital, first to Visp then to Sion which is close to Crans-Montana.
Swiss daily Berner Zeitung first reported Tuesday the victim was Kestenholz.
Recent posts on his Instagram account included film of Kestenholz paragliding and landing on frozen lakes near St. Moritz.
"To enjoy those rare moments when nature‘s wonders align you need to be ready to drop everything and go!" he wrote.
AP Winter Olympics at https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
FILE - Snowboard bronze winner in Nagano, Ueli Kestenholz, presents his medal on Monday, Feb. 16, 1998 in front of the town hall in his hometown of Thun. (Edi Engeler/Keystone via AP, file)
FILE - Gold medalist Ross Rebagliati of Canada, center, silver medalist Thomas Prugger of Italy, left, and Ueli Kestenholz of Switzerland celebrate after the Men's Giant Slalom snowboarding competition Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998 in Yamanouchi, Japan. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)
