Natural feature
Giessbachfälle
Fourteen-step waterfall plunging through forest into a lake, reached by a historic funicular.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Giessbach Falls above Lake Brienz, near Interlaken, begins with Johannes Kehrli, head of the Brienz village school, cutting a path up the gorge by hand early in the eighteen hundreds. It then turns to the Swiss engineer Carl Roman Abt and a practical problem of the eighteen seventies: how to carry crowds up a slope this steep without spending a fortune. Best heard on the landing stage, or aboard one of the wooden funicular cars.
This audio guide was created using AI.