Unreachable? It's an ideal summit site!

July 29, 2001
Source: New York Times
Original story - link verified on July 29, 2001
By Bruce Mccall

Big enough for a group photo, but small enough that nine would be a crowd" — that was the charge to location scouts fanning out across the globe seeking venues for future powwows of the leaders of the Group of 8.But ever more obscure and out-of-the-way sites, like the Canadian resort community of Kananaskis, just chosen for next year's meeting, seem a virtual cinch. Kananaskis, set in out-of-the-way parkland left over from the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, enjoys no cachet and boasts few of the luxuries found in nearby Banff. "A place so out of it that even Canadians notice," burbled a Group of 8 site coordinator. "What a find!

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