#the alps
A short collection of moments from my hike across the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland last summer. Always magical.
Valley peace.
Bernese Alps, Switzerland. August, 2018.
http://aussietramper.com/a-walk-across-the-bernese-alps/
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A solo crossing.
Meiringen to Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. August, 2018.
http://aussietramper.com/a-walk-across-the-bernese-alps/
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Artifacts belonging to Austro-Hungarian soldiers. On the left, a gas mask, hat and goggles worn in extremely bright snow to prevent blindness. On the right, a cross made from barbed wire.
During the Great War, an almost secondary war took place with soldiers fighting to determine who had control over parts of the Alps: Italy or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Known as the White War, battles were waged high on icy peaks and barracks were cut into the bodies of glaciers.
Global warming means that the glacier is melting and the barracks, along with artifacts like these and the frozen bodies of fallen soldiers, are being revealed.
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