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A day in the mountains
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Drove down to Kaprun so that we could go up a mountain. We had the choice of the cable car and the funiclar railway. Managed to convince Mum to take the railway, she's scared of heights and wouldn't take the cable car, I thought it safer than being stuck in a 3300m underground tunnel! Finally emerging at about 2500m.
Great view, fresh air and an escape from the heat in the valleys. It's amazing how altitude effects you and how out of breath you can get, so we did a little walking and a lot of sitting.
A few years later my apprehension at using the train was proved right, the following was taken from Wikipedia.
"The Kaprun disaster was the result of a fire that occurred in an ascending railway car in the tunnel of funicular train "Gletscherbahn 2" in Kaprun, Austria, on November 11, 2000. The disaster claimed the lives of 155 people, leaving only 12 survivors from the burning car. The victims were skiers on their way to the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier."
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