SCHÖNAU AM KÖNIGSSEE, Germany – At 23 minutes before midnight, at 5,600 feet above sea level, the lashing rain and furious winds outside the darkened bunkroom prompted two questions to turn over in my.
Berchtesgaden, a national park in southeastern Germany, is wedged into a thumb of land poking into Austria. The Alps slash the skies, in jagged granite and knife-drops into sudden valleys.
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