Tourist Paths Made Easy.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 9 December 1908, Page 9

Tourist Paths Made Easy.

Tourists who visit Switzerland need no longer risk their limbs and lives in perilous climbs up mountains which they can now ascend comfortably seated in a carriage to a height of from three to ten thousand feet amid the snow. It is estimated that during the summer season of 1907 about 400,000 visitors made trips on the Swiss funicular line, while the total this season so far amounts to 250,000. There are twenty-live mountains—and Alpine resorbs—which have already boon “conquered” by the railway engineer.-, and the following lines are the twelve most notable in Switzerland and the most patronised bi tourists: — -

Another line of entirely novel form was completed last month up the Wetterhom. It is an elevated “Alpine lift,” which starts near Grindelwald, and by means of perpendicular cables climbs directly up the side of the mountain. Several new mountain lines are projected, among the most important being to the summits of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. In the near future, at the present rate of “progress,” every Swiss peak will have its railway and its hotels.

Mountain l.im -. Long: h in miles. Height in foot Brienz Rothorn .1 7.713 Glion Naye ■, i ti.fiOS Mont Genera fi' 5,400 Pilatus 3 6,988 Stauserhorn 2 i 6,236 Rorschach Hcid»*n ■1 • 2645 Vitznau Righi 5,903 Ar th Righi 7 • 5,905 Gomer Grat ti 9,312 Schvnige Platt* .i 6,180 Wengeralp . 1 ■ 6,768 Jungfrau . . . .> • 10,273