The Susten Pass takes time to really get going before it transitions from merely pretty to truly, breathtakingly stunning
Did you know that until just a few years ago, much of Switzerland’s major infrastructure – bridges, tunnels, roads and so forth – was packed with explosives, ready to be detonated when invasion threatened? The practice was a hangover from the Cold War, a time when irritable superpowers menaced one another with complete annihilation. How times change.
There’s a tortured analogy in here somewhere about a road’s hidden dangers, or perhaps something about blowing up when it all gets to be too much on a tough climb, but like every major tourist route in Switzerland, the Susten Pass is beguilingly
