stackyFACTSIn the winter of 1946, a US military transport plane crash-landed on Switzerland's Gauli Glacier.
In the winter of 1946, a US military transport plane crash-landed on Switzerland's Gauli Glacier. To rescue the survivors, the Swiss military executed 'Operation Matterhorn,' landing planes equipped with skis on the treacherous ice for the first time in history. This wild alpine rescue essentially invented glacier flight, inadvertently laying the groundwork for wealthy tourists today paying exorbitant sums to helicopter onto pristine ice fields.
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