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In 1863, a child helps the ice cutters at the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, loading blocks onto sleds bound for Paris. But the glacier is alive and has something to say about losing its ice — a story that interweaves the old trade of ice harvesting with the glacier's own ancient memories of the Little Ice Age.
A child discovers a hidden door inside the Eigerwand railway station — carved into the mountain at 2,865 meters — that leads into the heart of the Eiger itself. There, the mountain tells the stories of all the climbers who challenged its fearsome north face, from the 1936 tragedy to the triumphant first ascent in 1938.
A shy child builds a Velogemel with old Christian Buhlmann's ghost, enters the world championship, and discovers that the wooden sled steers itself when you believe in it. The story of a disabled inventor who turned his limitation into Grindelwald's most beloved tradition.
A child boards Adolf Guyer-Zeller's first train in 1912, traveling through the Eiger tunnel as construction workers' lanterns flicker in the dark. Emerging at the Jungfraujoch — 3,454 meters, the highest railway station in Europe — into blinding sunlight and eternal ice, the child witnesses a dream 16 years in the making finally come true.
The Lower Grindelwald Glacier is shrinking and forgetting its own past. A child walks the Glacier Gorge and collects the glacier's scattered memories — the marble quarried from its depths, the ice blocks shipped to Paris, the Little Ice Age when it reached into the village — before they melt away forever.
In 1908, a child is the first passenger on Wilhelm Feldmann's miraculous aerial cableway, soaring 420 meters above the glacier in a tiny cabin while the inventor's spirit rides alongside. Switzerland's first public aerial cableway — with its extreme 116% gradient — becomes a journey of wonder and the courage to fly.
A child afraid of heights must cross the First Cliff Walk to deliver a message to the alpine choughs nesting on the other side. Suspended 45 meters out from the sheer rock face at 2,168 meters, with the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau filling the horizon, the child discovers that the mountains hold you up when you trust them.
Each of Grindelwald's seven mountain communities holds a piece of an ancient key. A child must visit Bussalp, Holzmatten, Bach, Grindel, Scheidegg, Wärgistal, and Itramen to assemble the key and unlock the secret of the "barred forest" — the meaning hidden in Grindelwald's own name since 1146.
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