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Algeria's skiers return to Atlas mountains, after years of civil war
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Before the early 1990s, when the country was gripped by civil war and terrorism, Algeria had a small ski community on the Atlas mountains.
The ski lifts at Tikjda were stripped by looters during the conflict, but enthusiasts have started to return to the slopes, as William Maclean reports for
Reuters.
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A recent weekend saw 1,000 people skiing, tobogganing and picnicking at the resort, largely abandoned during the conflict.
Student Hayat Chahou, 22, cannot afford to ski. But she scraped up the cash to share the costs of a day trip by car with friends from the capital Algiers, 150 km (95 miles) to the west.
"It's magnificent! We couldn't visit when the terrorists were here. Now we are free because there is security," she said, a flurry of white speckling her coat as a snowball fight erupts.
A bottle-top reminder of Tikjda, Algeria
Anyone skied on the Atlas mountains? Perhaps more likely in Morocco?
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