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BOURG-SAINT-PIERRE, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 At the Great St. Bernard Pass high in the Swiss Alps<\/a>, the eponymous dogs still walk the same mountain paths their ancestors patrolled for hundreds of years to find travelers buried beneath the snow.<\/p>\n

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