Gotthard breakthrough
Deep under the legendary Gotthard pass, men and their giant machines toil day and night on the site of the world’s longest tunnel.
While we are sleeping at night, they dig. On Sundays, when we are reading the paper, they dig. When we’re on holiday, lying on the beach… they’re digging. Three shifts, 24 hours a day.
Thomas Kern took his camera and microphone and recorded the tunnelers as they worked.
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