Hitler's former holiday home, the so-called Eagle's Nest, is now a memorial with a view out of the Berchtesgaden mountains. Bergerlebnis Berchtesgaden/dpa The Kehlsteinhaus on Obersalzberg, once a ...

At the start of November 2019 German alpinist Thomas Huber frees his multi-pitch climb Stone Age (8b+) on Untersberg in Berchtesgaden Alps, Germany. 25 years after that landmark climb Huber has now ...

On Hoher Göll in the Berchtesgadener Alps, German rock climber and alpinist Ines Papert has repeated Scaramouche (300m, 8a), a rarely repeated climb put up by the Huber brothers in 1989. Repeating an ...

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Huge ski resorts, hotel complexes and noisy après-ski parties are the norm in many Alpine areas. Not in Berchtesgadener Land. The rural region missed out on many touristic developments. Now it's ...

“You are now on the steepest road in all of Germany,” our tour guide, Wilhelm, explained. At least, I think his name was Wilhelm, though his name may have been Klaus, Karl, or Gunter. I’m not good at ...

The Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria was founded on August 1, 1978 and attracts 1.5 million visitors a year. Its landmark is the 2713 meter high Watzmann mountain, at the foot of which the ...

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