Monday morning we woke up in Austria with the goal of hiking the Alps towards Italy. I love to hike and I often do it back home but I have to say that this hike was actually REALLY challenging! During the hike, we had plenty of time to just imagine what the Nazi officers had to go through in order to escape justice. Every turn of the hike, the incline just got larger and larger. When we finally reached our destination - the point in the mountain where we could see the border- a light rain hit us. We were not about to let a small amount of rain stop us. This hike not only allowed us to actually put ourselves in Nazi officers shoes but we also also learn how challenging the actual hike itself is. Throughout our hike, most of our group wished misery upon the Nazi's that took this route and got away with it. This put into perspective that people are willing to go to far extents in order to escape justice at all cost. What I still can't help but wonder is how the trail was kept a secret from everyone and if it was known like some rumors suggest, why didn't anyone do anything to stop it? It is like ANYONE could have done the job, but EVERYBODY thought that SOMEBODY would do it, but instead NO ONE did anything about it and that is how the Nazi's escaped.
-Rosa
Group 1
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