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PHOTOS © Evans Parent Le Kosovo est devenu tristement célèbre durant le génocide survenu à la fin des années 90. Durant cette période, près d’un million de Kosovars de confession catholique ont fui vers l’Albanie alors qu’ils étaient persécutés par la minorité musulmane serbe. Pour cette partie du monde, ce n’était pas le premier conflit impliquant des habitants d’ethnies différentes. Située au cœur des Balkans, les paysages magnifiques de cette région auraient, à eux seuls, justifié qu’on se l’arrache. Kosovo became tragically famous during the genocide that took place at the end of the 90s. At that time, close to a million Catholic Kosovars fled to Albania to escape persecution by the Serbian Muslim minority. It was not the first such regional conflict involving residents of differing ethnic groups. Located in the heart of the Balkans, the magnificent countryside alone could have been enough to spark this kind of territorial possessiveness. Surfing the Web, I happened on some information about Brezovica, a Kosovan ski resort that was described as an off-piste heaven. Brezovica, the only ski resort in the area, on a mountain with a 780-metre vertical rise, was considered as a candidate site for the men’s downhill of the Sarajevo Olympic Games in 1984. My friend Amélie and I perused a few photos showing pristine white snow and, suffering from contagious curiosity, we decided to take off in a camper on the trail of this obscure paradise. As we approached the border, we felt the tension rise in the RV. There was a long waiting line, it was late, and there were several armoured vehicles in evidence…all of which PAR/BY EVANS PARENT <strong>Ski</strong>er au paradis perdu <strong>Ski</strong>ing in paradise lost made my girlfriend and me a little edgy. However, other than the special car insurance that’s required if you want to drive in the country, it’s really as easy for a Canadian to enter Kosovo as it is for one of us to enter the United States. After responding to the usual questions, we completed our journey toward Brezovica on roads that had clearly seen better days. A few hours later, having traveled some distance and seen a fair number of signs indicating that we should give way to armoured vehicles, we decided to stop in a village for the night. We parked our “home on wheels” in a dark corner by a hotel that appeared abandoned, and then managed to get to sleep in spite of the gloomy atmosphere in the village. 54 | skipresse www.skipresse.com
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