原文标题：
Europe | The snows of yesteryear
Can music festivals save the melting Alps?
Europe’s ski resorts must reinvent themselves for a hotter future
欧洲 | 昔日的白雪
音乐节能拯救正在融化的阿尔卑斯山吗？
欧洲滑雪胜地必须转型，以应对更炎热的未来
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It was a distinctly meditative concert, performed by a pianist-composer and a woman who strokes crystal bowls.
这是一场极具冥想氛围的音乐会，由一位钢琴作曲家和一位敲击水晶钵的女演奏者共同演绎。
Some 250 people had gathered in a
meadow
high in the Italian Alps, facing the moonlit
bulk
of Mt Chaberton.
约250名观众齐聚在意大利阿尔卑斯山高处的一片草地上，面对着月光下巍峨的沙伯顿山。
The Deipratiedellestelle (Of Meadows and Stars) festival brings music, dance and performance to an area usually known for its winter sports.
“草地与星辰”音乐节，将音乐、舞蹈与各类表演带到了这片素来以冬季运动闻名的地区。
With Europe experiencing severe heatwaves, such events have taken on added significance: the Alps are warming at more than twice the northern hemisphere’s average rate.
恰逢欧洲正遭遇多轮猛烈的热浪，这类活动也多了一层特殊含义：阿尔卑斯山脉的升温速度，已经超过北半球平均水平的2倍。
“You cannot base all your tourism on skiing at a time when the ski season is getting shorter and shorter,” says Daniela Cattaneo, the festival’s producer.
音乐节策划人丹妮拉·卡塔内奥说：“滑雪季变得越来越短，我们不可能把旅游业完全押在滑雪项目之上。”
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Artificial snowmaking helps. Researchers in 2023 found that of 2,000 ski resorts across Europe, over half will lack enough snow in one winter out of two if mean temperatures reach 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
人工造雪能够起到一定缓解作用。2023年，研究人员发现，如果全球平均气温比工业化前高出2°C，欧洲2000个滑雪场里，半数以上每隔一个冬季就会面临积雪不足的困境。
With
snow cannons
for half their skiable surface, that would fall to 27%. But snowmaking is expensive and uses lots of electricity and water.
如果滑雪场能给一半的滑雪道装上造雪机，那么雪量不足的比例将降至27%。然而人工造雪成本高昂，且会消耗巨量水电资源。
“It cannot keep pace with global warming,” says Daniel Scott, a geographer at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
加拿大滑铁卢大学地理学家丹尼尔·斯科特指出：“人工造雪无法跟上全球变暖的脚步。”
At the lower-altitude resorts that most need snowmaking, temperatures more often rise too high for it to be possible.
而那些最依赖造雪设备的低海拔滑雪胜地，却经常因为气温太高，导致造雪都无法进行。
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Another strategy is to build high-tech
gondolas
to
whisk
skiers to ever-higher altitudes.
另一种策略是建造高科技缆车，快速将滑雪者送往更高海拔的山顶。
Several feature in a €50m ($58m) programme unveiled last December by Italy’s Piedmont region.
去年12月，意大利皮埃蒙特地区公布了一项总投入5000万欧元（5800万美元）的建设计划，里面就规划了好几条这类索道。
But these can overcrowd the peaks, and are useless to inexperienced skiers and snowboarders who prefer gentle lower slopes.
但这些缆车会导致山顶人满为患的问题，对于新手滑雪者和单板滑雪爱好者来说，他们更喜欢地势平缓的低海拔雪道，缆车对他们也就失去了意义。
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So mountain regions must find more things for tourists to do.
因此，山区必须开发更多可供游客体验的项目。
“Adaptation strategies based on diversification of mountain activities and revenues are crucial,” as a Bank of Italy study puts it.
正如意大利银行的一项研究所述：“依托山地旅游活动与收入来源多元化制定转型策略，至关重要。”
Luckily, high temperatures will also lead some holidaymakers to
flee
Mediterranean beaches.
幸运的是，高温天气也会促使一部分度假游客离开地中海沿岸海滩。
Cultural events, wellness centres, mountain biking and lake swimming can draw them to the mountains.
文化节庆、康养中心、山地骑行与湖畔游泳项目，都能够将游客吸引到山区。
Whistler Blackcomb, North America’s largest ski resort, now gets more visits in summer than in winter.
北美最大的滑雪胜地惠斯勒黑梳山，如今夏季客流量已经超过冬季。
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In Piedmont the investment in diversification remains modest—less than €6m of the €50m modernisation programme.
在皮埃蒙特地区，用于旅游多元化转型的投入仍然有限：这项5000万欧元的升级改造计划中，用于转型的资金还不到600万欧元。
Mr Scott says much depends on how soon European policymakers and investors see
the writing on the ice
.
斯科特认为，事态的走向，在很大程度上取决于欧洲政策制定者与投资者能否尽快看清冰雪产业暗藏的危机。
Resorts that establish themselves early as year-round or summer venues will gain an invaluable reputational advantage.
那些率先转型为全年开放或者夏季旅游胜地的滑雪场，将会收获无可估量的品牌优势。
He is collaborating on a project to model which ones are most likely to go out of business: “Certainly 25% in the next 20 years.” With grim humour, the project is entitled “Après Ski”.
他目前正参与一项研究项目，通过建模预判哪些雪场最有可能倒闭。“未来20年内，将会有25%的滑雪场难逃停业命运。”这个带着一丝黑色幽默的项目，被命名为《滑雪落幕之后》。
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原文出自：2026年8月29日《TE》Europe版块
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Another strategy is to build high-tech gondolas to whisk skiers to ever-higher altitudes.
另一种策略是建造高科技缆车，快速将滑雪者送往更高海拔的山顶。
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