France’s oldest lumberjack contest puts axe skills to the test

Sixty lumberjacks gathered in Chamrousse, France, for the country's seventy-third lumberjacking championship, according to Euronews. The competition drew two thousand spectators to watch competitors race axes through logs—a tradition that has preserved Alpine forestry skills and heritage across generations.

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