Grindelwald
Alpine glacier village beneath the Eiger, ringed by high meadows, ski slopes and retreating ice.
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This guide to Grindelwald, the glacier village above Interlaken, follows a strange nineteenth-century trade: the ice of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, cut by hand and sent off to cool food and drink in cities far from the Alps. You'll meet a Bern ice firm, the horse carts racing the summer heat to Lake Thun, and the local brewery that bought in too. Best heard looking down the valley toward Grund.
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