Kleine Scheidegg, June 2014

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Grindelwald and Rosenlaui, 2014

and views of the Eiger

Oscar and Cathy are in Europe, imbibing the views and ambience of northern France, and we've talked them into linking up with us in Switzerland before going home. Grindelwald has been suggested as a suitable venue.

You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.

Kleine Scheidegg and views of the Eiger Nordwand

We've stashed the luggage at the hotel and grabbed the rack railroad from Grindelwald-Grund up to Kleine Scheidegg (2061m), 11 June 2014. I haven't been here since 1999; it looks the same, except for . . .

. . . the Coca-Cola Tepee.

The Eigernordwand restaurant, from whose terrace, in the old movies, the "vultures" watched the brave climbers on the Eiger North Wall through binoculars, hoping for some excitement.

A festive atmosphere

The Tschuggen (2521m) to the north, near the Grindelwald and Wengen skilifts to Männlichen

The Eiger Nordwand

The train (180 francs a pop) from Kleine Scheidegg up through the Eiger to the "Top of Europe", the Jungfraujoch

The rail line was tunneled up through the Eiger between 1898 and 1912. The views from the Jungfraujoch are a once in a lifetime experience; and at about $200 a ride, once in a lifetime will be about enough.

There it goes -- soon it will make a left turn and start up the tunnel through the Eiger Nordwand, with a stop at a window looking out of the Nordwand and another out at the Eismeer, or sea of ice, on the other side.