The world’s longest stairway
Official World Record.
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Gaby Ochsenbein worked at Swiss Radio International and later at SWI swissinfo.ch from 1986 to 2018. She lives in Bern.
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The 11’674 steps running alongside the funicular tracks of the Niesen Railway make the stairway the longest anywhere, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Once a year, the steps are opened for a running competition up the 2,336 metre-high mountain. (Gaby Ochsenbein and Christian Raaflaub, swissinfo.ch)
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