GT Alpina

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    Over the course of his life, Roch made 25 first ascents in the Alps and 27 first ascents in Asia. Mont Forel in Schweizerland, East Greenland was first climbed by a Swiss expedition led by André Roch in 1938.
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    The Matterhorn hut was built in 1865, the Mountet in 1871, the Weisshorn Hut in 1876, the Concordia on the Aletsch glacier and the Boval hut in 1877.
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    1:25.000 This is the most detailed map, useful for many purposes. Those are popular with tourists, especially for famous areas like Zermatt and St. Moritz.
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    South from Bédoin: 1,617 m (5,305 ft) over 21.8 km (13.5 mi). This is regarded as the most difficult ascent. The road to the summit has an average gradient of 7.43%.
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    The Matterhorn hut was built in 1865, the Mountet in 1871, the Weisshorn Hut in 1876, the Concordia on the Aletsch glacier and the Boval hut in 1877.
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    Loretan was the third person to have climbed all 14 eight-thousanders, a feat he accomplished at the age of 36
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    Ice core records show that before the Holocene there was global warming after the end of the last ice age and cooling periods
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    The Tremola San Gottardo appears today as it was in 1951.
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    The route starts from the Tschierva Hut (2,584 m (8,478 ft) in Val Roseg, accessible from Pontresina.
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    Roch was born near Geneva, Switzerland in 1906, the son of an academic physician who would later become the president of the University of Geneva.
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GT Alpina proudly calls itself a workhorse serif, but delights in playing with the very meaning of that concept. It reaches into the grab bag of typographic history to resurrect shapes some may falsely see as too expressive, resulting in a meticulous family melding these distinct shapes with a pragmatic execution.

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Typeface features

OpenType features enable smart typography. You can use these features in most Desktop applications, on the web, and in your mobile apps. Each typeface contains different features. Below are the most important features included in GT Alpina’s fonts:

  • SS01
  • Alternate J
Jungfrau
  • SS02
  • Alternate ?
¿Ascensión?
  • SS03
  • Alternate &
Piz & Palü
  • SS04
  • Alternate @
M@terhorn
  • ONUM
  • Oldstyle Figures
0123456789
  • SMCP
  • Small Caps
Greina Pass
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GT Alpina in use