         National Geographic Photo of the Day: Alpine Wrestlers

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Switzerland, 1968 Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie Two burly Swiss
men wrestle in front of a rapt audience during the Unspunnenfest. Held
in and around Interlaken, this festival was first staged in 1805 on the
grounds of Unspunnen Castle. The highlight of this celebration of folk
dancing, yodeling, and Alpine sports is the Steinstossen, the throwing
of the Unspunnen Stone, a 184-pound (83-kilogram) glacial boulder.

This year the Unspunnen Festival will be held September 1-3.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not
published in, "Switzerland: Europe&#039s High-Rise Republic," July
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