At 13,133 feet (4,000 meters) above the ground, located on the north-eastern ridge of the Matterhorn, the Solvay Hut is owned by the Swiss Alpine Club and is used for providing food and shelter to mountaineers, climbers and hikers. Named after Ernest Solvay, it was first built in 1915 and then rebuilt in 1976 and equipped with a telephone.
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Located 200 meters (645 feet) above sea level and running a distance of 5km (3.1 miles) Gelmer Funicular Handeck Bridge is one of the most exciting rides in Europe.
The Sphinx Observatory in Jungfraujoch, Switzerland could be the perfect place to establish a solitary mage tower. It is located on the mountain top 3571 m (11,716 ft.) high with an elevator drilled within a mountain. Its observation deck is open to public, so if you're in Switzerland one day, don't miss you chance to visit it.
The barefoot movement has produced those strange looking barefoot shoes with five sleeves for your toes, but now a Swiss company has created the very first sock shoe.
Daredevil and certifiable crazy man Freddy Nock casually walked down a single cable suspended 10,000 feet over the ground. With a long balance stick in hand and his life literally in the balance, he trusted his tightrope walking skills to make it down the Swiss mountain safely.
This is the world’s smallest gun. It shoots the smallest rim fire ammunition in the world, 2.34mm caliber bullets. It has a length of 2.15 inches (5.5 cm) and is a double action revolver.
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