WEBVTT - Franz_Lorenz file: Lorenz_Franz_40.txt

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My grandfather worked there doing odd
jobs. He carried sand.

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That's how he became the first tenant of
the hut.

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He had six sons. Three of them became
mountain guides, just like him.

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They were able to perform their jobs as
guides in a vast territory

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because their father was permanently
employed at the hut.

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My father was born 1879. As a young man,
in 1904, 1905 and 1907

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he went to the Caucasus as a mountain
guide for tourists.

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In Pamir. In the Altai mountains -

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they even climbed up to 6,100 metres in
those days.

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Then my father succeeded my grandfather

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in the Jamtal hut. He took over the
lease  of the alpine hut in 1909.

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He started working up there with his
bride,

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who became my mother.

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We were born in the years after 1920.

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Besides tending the animals,  chopping
wood

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and making hay,

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we were confronted with tourism,

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albeit of a simple kind.

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When we were young we already minded the
goats at our fathers' hut.

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In the morning we were allowed  to take
the bucket of seal fat -

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the fat was used to waterproof  the
harnesses of

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the pack animals.  The hut was only open
in summer.

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Anyway, we were allowed to polish the
shoes

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of the gentlemen with this seal fat.
That's how we sort of grew

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into that environment of tourism.