St. Bernard

This was taken at the St. Bernard Museum in Martigny, Switzerland, the closest town to the monastery set up near the Italian boarder around the 9th century to aid travellers traversing the Great St Bernard Pass, the most ancient pass through the Western Alps.
It's where St. Bernard dogs were first trained to search and rescue those who were trapped in avalanches or injured in the mountains, and are still bred and kept there today, though now more to bring in the tourist dough than work. Unfortunately these dogs have been deemed too big to work. Alsatians now take on the majority of the rescue work as they are light enough for an airlift to hospital.