VIENNA'S MOUNTAIN TOP.
TEN MINUTES TO CLIMB IT. The fortunate people of Vienna are now able to enjoy the delights of sports on a peak 5000 ft. sea-level within little more than two hours of leaving their front doors. Austria is, of course, one of the lands of the Alps, and at holiday times the call of the mountains is strong among the city folk. The Rax Alpe, a journey of 110 minutes from Vienna by train, has 140 paths to its summit worn by the feet of countless travellers. The trouble, is that the climb takes three hours in the ordinary way, but to get over this difficulty a suspension railway has been built up the moonta.il by which people will be able to ascend 3300 ft. in ten minutes. The President of Austria opened the new line a ftw weeks ago.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 6
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143VIENNA'S MOUNTAIN TOP. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 6
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