Staubbach Falls
Free-falling waterfall plunging from an overhanging cliff, dissolving into drifting spray and rainbows.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Staubbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen, near Interlaken, is about what height and wind do to a mountain stream, and how the fall earned its blunt German name. Lord Byron turns up too, lodging across the valley in eighteen sixteen and reaching for a comparison. Best heard from the meadow at the foot of the fall on a breezy afternoon.
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