Farmers once used a cable car network to move between mountains in Switzerland’s Engelberg region. Now tourists can use them to follow a new hiking trail
here was definitely a goat in our bedroom. As the wind rattled the wooden shutters above the mattresses on the floor, where my partner and I and our two-year-old lay huddled, I woke with a start, searching the darkness for the creature whose bleats had interrupted my sleep.. Or – technically – above one, in a converted section of the upper floor, beneath which the 100 goats the Käslin family tend over summer are milked twice a day. I checked the clock on my phone. It was 6am.
“They are still the lifeline for many of us in these mountains,” Nadine, a volunteer at Alp Oberfeld, told me, “especially in places like this, which still has no road access.” We’d arrived late on our second day, hot on the trail of the resident goats, amid the swirling clouds of a brewing summer storm..
The cableway started with a jerk and then we were off, shooting over the edge of a cliff while my toddler squealed in delight That night before bed we watched the sun set from the wraparound balcony, while the family’s peacock sauntered by and flying humans swirled on the thermals beneath their parachutes headed back down into the valley.
That night we all watched the goats come home for milking then headed to our little dorm above them, while the evening mist swirled in.
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