The Brenner Pass line is the only one that crosses the Alpine divide on the surface, and one of its military values is that it can't be put out of commission forever by one well-place explosion.
It was a journey that began a decade earlier, ten thousand miles away, on a small helicopter crossing an alpine lake in the treeless paramo of the Andes, with a terrifying shriek as the chopper fell from the sky, its blades colliding with the water, his lungs filling as his mind went dark.
Crossing vast alpine plains dotted with clumps of cobalt blue and gold flowers, or picking your way over 3,000-metre 3,000-metrerimson rock, you can travel for hours without seeing another passes.
Living and traveling together for 44 days — moving as a caravan through busy towns and silent forests, sleeping on roadsides and mountainsides, crossing rivers and alpine passes, sharing the joys and tribulations of the trail — we became close.
On stage 17 of the Giro – a monstrous 245km of pain that crossed the Maddalena, Vars, Izoard, Montgenèvre and Sestriere under lowering and unforgiving skies – Coppi simply flew, crossing four of those forbidding Alpine passes alone and riding 190km solo to the finish in Pinerolo.
Barr was recaptured and escaped once more before finally making it through the Alpine crossing himself, leading a group of more than twenty.
The tunnel crossed Alpine rock formations comprising a variety of rock typologies and several fault zones.
They would cross lofty Alpine passes, brave bad roads and miserable inns, and were often set upon by robbers.
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