The German Superlative - Zugspitze Seilbahnweg

Blofeld's hideout infiltrated, and only Jon-Albert, myself and a couple of pairs of fat skis could stop him... ... excellent powder skiing from Germany's highest peak - the German superlative ... ... also known as the 60% route ;o) P ________________________________________ Voiceover text: I love the Alps. The installation at the top of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, is the sort of thing you usually only see in James Bond film as the hide out of an evil multi-millionaire bent on world domination. The difference is that in real life, there's a restaurant, an open-access balcony and you don't need a Walther PPK and a bow tie to access the wicked off-piste skiing on offer... We asked the lift attendants at the top whether they was a way down on skis from the peak above to the pistes below: some said there definitely wasn't, some said that it was possible, but were reluctant to tell us more - such is the nature of route information for extreme skiing sometimes. Coming from the UK, a country held to ransom by a Health & Safety Executive going wrong, I always find it refreshing that in the Alps, instead of a barrier with "No Entry" emblazoned on it, there's a staircase with a warning sign to discourage the less experienced and a straightforward statement that beyond this point there is the risk of death... Well, it was a beautiful day, Jon-Albert & I had survived the 40% route the day before and we didn't buy fat skis for nothing... It was the kind of line I was very glad to have my brother Jon with me on, and up to a point it was a delicate route-finding exercise, but when it opened up on the bottom, it was the kind of untracked steep skiing we spend the summers dreaming about...