A crowd-funding campaign is under way to save one of the quirkiest and historically fascinating places in – a 101-year-old Swiss-style time-warp village in the heart of the Rocky and Selkirk mountains that's now a ghost town.Edelweiss Village, seemingly teleported from the Alps, sits on the outskirts of Golden, a rural town in British Columbia, not far from . It comprises six chalets, perched on their own little hilltops and complete with timberwork and ornate wooden balconies.The hamlet is deemed historically significant because it was built as a base for legendary mountain guides from the Swiss Alps who, in their capacity as guides for hotel guests, 'introduced European-style hiking and mountaineering to the Canadian Rockies'.
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