Grindelwald-First - Top of Adventure
Alpine summit reached by a three-stage gondola, with a cliff walk, zipline and wide glacier views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Grindelwald-First, the summit above Grindelwald near Interlaken, is about the lift you rode to get here rather than the view. It reaches back to the winter of nineteen forty-six, when the engineering firm Von Roll brought a cheap new kind of mountain lift to these slopes, and to the summer of nineteen ninety, when crews broke ground at Bort for its replacement. Along the way it asks why a line that lost a stop still follows almost the same path. Best heard at the top station, looking back down the cable.
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