EK II from Berchtesgaden

[Tim Calvert]

124 meters of tunnel.....nice and cool after being out in the bright sunlight.
The drop in temperature helps me be patient.
I know a cold beer awaits when we get to the top!

[Tim Calvert]

124 metes later, we enter a round chamber.

[Tim Calvert]

The ceiling is domed.
The elevator is on the way down to get us!

[Tim Calvert]

The inside of the elevator is polished brass!

Goes nicely with the polished marble walls.

[Tim Calvert]

Mirror-like!
Wifey-poo's cousin.
The elevator slows down....
The door is opening!!! You can see it in the reflection!!!

[Tim Calvert]

I step out of the elevator.....and there is my beer!

;-)

I almost knock it over the side in my haste!

[Tim Calvert]

Seig Prost!

[Tim Calvert]

Really lucked out on the weather.

[Tim Calvert]

Everybody thought I was a nut when I told my wife to get on the window sill...

[Tim Calvert]

...but I had my evil plan.

[Tim Calvert]

Better have another, before heat stroke sets in.....

[Tim Calvert]

From the top...

[Tim Calvert]

Better get back before that last bus leaves...it's a long walk back if we miss it.

[Tim Calvert]

Thank God the British bombs missed this.

[Tim Calvert]

It's closing time.

Even with plenty of daylight left, when you're one of the last souls on the mountain, a lonely eerie feeling starts to overcome you.