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With its beautiful beaches and warm seas, the island of Crete ranks as one of the top summer vacation spots in the world. Few people realize however that Crete is a mountainous island and that it receives abundant snowfall in winter. For thousands of years, the mountains have been a way of life for the local people. Concerned that the summer tourism industry has begun to alter the traditional fabric of the island, a group of mountaineers set about to organize the first ever winter ski mountaineering race on Crete.