Wengen
Car-free mountain village on a high terrace above a cliff-walled valley, facing the Jungfrau massif.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wengen, the village on a terrace high above the Lauterbrunnen valley near Interlaken, is about snow and what it can do to a mountain village. It goes back to February nineteen ninety-nine, a winter when the Swiss Alps were buried and a café owned by a local couple stood in the wrong place. You'll also hear about the municipal avalanche service and the long, expensive work on the slopes of the Männlichen. Best heard where you can see both the cable car station and the ridge above it.
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