text: how do the geoprahical features of switzerland have an impact on the ppl and the culture of the region.?   read a story about that?  during the war those tall mountains were a death trap to the oposition.  but to those people it was home.  they are great on ski's and went up and down with no problem.  they start out on ski's as infants.  know how to camoflauge against the snow and would jump out of nowhere and kill the oposition and then escape back into obsurity. who survived left and refused to go back and that kept them out of a major conflict.  it was real interesting.  they came to the conclusion those mountains were inpenatrateable.  yet, the ones who grew up there for generations had no problems at all getting around.  their eyes had grown accustomed to seeing there.