Maaza Mengiste’s childhood trip to the mountain didn’t go well. Upon returning decades later, she gains a new understanding of her mother’s life — and her own. Mount Pilatus in Switzerland. Legends ...

Mount Pilatus is one of the most accessible peaks in Switzerland. Visitors can hitch a ride on the gondola and aerial tram, or the steepest cogwheel train in the world. Making the trip to the top ...

Experience Mount Pilatus from its dramatic summit above Lucerne. The historic cogwheel railway connects Alpnachstad with Pilatus Kulm at 2,132 meters, climbing gradients of up to 48% along a ...

In 1889, Switzerland opened the Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway designed to climb Mount Pilatus using an unusual rack-and-cogwheel system. Engineer Eduard Locher developed the system after an earlier ...

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