Each story is rooted in real local history and landmarks
A child follows the 16 date markers along the Morteratsch Glacier Trail. At each sign, the glacier whispers memories of what it looked like in that year — 1900, 1930, 1960 — growing smaller with every step. When the child reaches the ice and makes a promise, the glacier reveals what it fears most about the future.
Young Johann Coaz bets his surveying companions they can reach a summit no one has climbed. Told from the perspective of his assistant Lorenz Ragut Tscharner, who nearly slips on the Morteratsch Glacier on that September day in 1850 when three men first stood atop the only four-thousander in the Eastern Alps.
An ibex born in a zoo in the lowlands is released on Piz Albris in the 1920s. Frightened at first, it must learn to trust the mountains and find its herd — a story of belonging and wildness reclaimed, as the Alpine king returns to the peaks where its ancestors once roamed.
A child riding the cable car hears the legend of the beautiful she-devil who enchanted young men. Exploring the glacier ridge, the child discovers that Diavolezza was not evil — she was the mountain's guardian, warning people away from crevasses to keep them safe.
Segantini climbs to the Schafberg above Pontresina to paint the Engadin one final time. A child from the village brings him supplies and watches as the painter captures light, clouds, and eternity on canvas. But the mountain has other plans, and the greatest painting of the Alps will be Segantini's last.
A child discovers that the sgraffito decorations on Pontresina's old houses are actually a secret code. Following the patterns from house to house along the Via Maistra, they decode a message left by a 17th-century Italian master builder — a message about the beauty that lies hidden in every wall.
A shy child in Pontresina must find the biggest cowbell in the village for the Chalandamarz parade on 1 March. The quest leads through old Engadin houses, the Spaniola Tower, and up to the ibex on Piz Albris — arriving just in time to ring in spring and chase away the last spirits of winter.
In 1910, a child rides the very first Bernina Express from Pontresina over the pass to Tirano. At each of the 196 bridges and 55 tunnels, the train reveals a different world — from glaciers and ibex at the top to palm trees and Italian gelato at the bottom, all connected by the highest railway crossing in the Alps.
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