Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe
High alpine saddle with Europe's highest railway station and tunnels blasted through rock.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Jungfraujoch, high above Interlaken, follows the railway that brought the Belle Époque tourist boom into the heart of the Eiger and the Mönch. It starts with an Interlaken hotelier mocked for a dream in eighteen seventy, then turns to the industrialist who sketched a route overnight in a Mürren hotel room in eighteen ninety-three. You'll hear about the crews who spent sixteen years blasting through the rock, and what kept them going. Best heard outside on the snow, facing the Jungfrau.
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