OUTDOOR - Glacier Canyon Grindelwald
Narrow limestone gorge carved by glacial meltwater, with cliffside walkways, tunnels and a web over the torrent.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Glacier Canyon in Grindelwald, near Interlaken, follows the decades when the Lower Grindelwald Glacier was quarried and sold, block by block, to cities far beyond the Alps. You'll meet the Bernese firm that held the concession, the cutters who worked the ice tongue, and the warm foehn wind that a local newspaper reported in eighteen seventy-three. Best heard at the canyon entrance, looking up the gorge toward where the ice once came out.
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