What does everyday life in the Alps of the 21st century look like? In this book the Max Planck research group Alpine Histories presents the results of four years of research between the local and the global in the European Alps: From the perspective of four anthropologists and one historian the authors Annika Lems, Danaé Leitenberg, Christine Moderbacher, Herta Nöbauer and Markus Wurzer tell stories about the role of time, self and the other in the German-speaking Alpine region. Structured along the lines of an imaginary mountain village the book sheds light on the relationship between centres and peripheries, the impact of climate change on ski regions, tourism’s dark underbelly, the Alp’s colonial entanglements, the role of organic and sustainable farming and the negotiation of ideas about local history and heritage. The book is based on in depth ethnographic research on the Pitztal Glacier in Tyrol, in the picturesque Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, the bi-lingual valley of Vinschgau/Val Venosta in South Tyrol and the nock mountains in Southern Austria. Depicted in countless photographs that the authors collected during fieldwork as well as through cyanotype prints the two South Tyrolean artists Laura Pan and Ariel Trettel created specifically for this book, the Alps appear as a highly mobile transitory space – a space of memories and of projections.