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To: Brumar89 who wrote (931239)	4/20/2016 11:37:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573249

"All your wild guesses and what ifs about glacier lengths and surmises the soldiers were tunneling under a glacier are you flailing around." You wish. However, I said "in the glacier", not "under". As much of the front was at altitudes of over 6,500ft, a new kind of war had to be developed. The Italians already had specialist mountain troops – the Alpini with their famous feathered caps – but the Austrians had to create the equivalent: the Kaiserschützen. They were supported by artillery and engineers who constructed an entire infrastructure of war at altitude, including trenches carved out of the ice and rudimentary cableways for transporting men and munitions to the peaks. telegraph.co.uk Entire villages of shacks were built, though officers generally lived in old mountain refuges, some outfitted with grand pianos and gramophones. On Marmolada, the highest mountain in the Dolomites, the Austrian Corps of Engineers built an entire "ice city"—a complex of tunnels, dormitories, and storerooms dug out of the bowels of the glacier. news.nationalgeographic.com