Swiss TV programme about a lady chamois hunting in the alps

[Bavarianbrit]

FYI.

 

[old keeper]

Impressive!

 

[Len the dog]

A very enviable way of life.

In his teenage years my father used to spend his summers in the Swiss Alps with his uncle and cousins, they had a cabin high up in the Linth valley where his uncle would hunt the Chamois. They would order their provisions in advance and a mule train would call by every couple of weeks.
My paternal lineage has a coat of arms, a basic emblem on a shield featuring a pair of chamois horns.

 

[spannulman]

Thanks for sharing. I have just spent a pleasant hour or two watching this and the david lloyd video. A nice way to spend a wet sunday morning.

I liked the butchery and eating together at the end as well. No one in my whole family hunts; i would love to have hunted and then prepared and eaten the fruits of our labour with my brothers.

One thing though, her accent and dialect. I could understand the narrator ok but when the woman spoke i thought i could understand- i was convinced she was speaking what sounded like German- but i struggled to understand a lot of what she said because of pronunciation or just didn’t understand the words! Is that swiss german or am i just a duffer?

 

[Olaf]

Thanks for sharing. I have just spent a pleasant hour or two watching this and the david lloyd video. A nice way to spend a wet sunday morning.

I liked the butchery and eating together at the end as well. No one in my whole family hunts; i would love to have hunted and then prepared and eaten the fruits of our labour with my brothers.

One thing though, her accent and dialect. I could understand the narrator ok but when the woman spoke i thought i could understand- i was convinced she was speaking what sounded like German- but i struggled to understand a lot of what she said because of pronunciation or just didn’t understand the words! Is that swiss german or am i just a duffer?

The Swiss hunter is just speaking German but with a Swiss accent. It’s pretty much the same as a southern German accent.
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[spannulman]

Ah, so I’m not a complete duffer but I still don’t know German well enough to understand regional accents. A bit like my mum from Hampshire who simply cannot understand a Geordie or Scotsman.

I had similar in Munich last summer, sharing a table with an Austrian family who I couldn’t understand when they spoke in their local dialect. I asked where they were from and they laughed and said “ it is our accent isn’t it? We are from a small village in xxxx”.

 

[Len the dog]

Schweizerdeutsch, my grandparents spoke it.

 

[Len the dog]

As a small aside, my paternal side of the family were from the Glarnerland and the Chamois, rather than being pronounced as the French sounding ‘Sham-wah’ was colloquially pronounced as ‘Shammus’.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Lovely video and what great scenery - thank you for posting.
If only I were 40 years younger….