The world’s longest stairway
Official World Record.
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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