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Swiss Yodelers retreat to fountains to beat brutal heat

Séamus Bellamy
Jul 15, 2026
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There’s hot, and then there’s so-hot-you-have-to-stand-in-a-public-fountain-while-yodeling hot. According to the Associated Press, the heat in Basel, Switzerland, was so intense recently that contestants and performers at the nation’s annual yodeling festival, Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest, had to take to public fountains to…

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