Karl Schranz
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Karl Schranz is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria, one of the best of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Schranz winning at Wengen in 1966, prior to the first World Cup season
Wengen
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Wengen is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzerland. Located in the canton of Bern at an elevation of 1,274 m (4,180 ft) above sea level, it is part of the Jungfrauregion and has approximately 1,300 year-round residents, which swells to 5,000 during summer and to 10,000 in the winter. Wengen hosts the classic Lauberhorn ski races of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in January.
Wengen in June 2012
The Wengeralpbahn leading into the town. The Jungfrau is visible in the background.
View from Männlichen of Wengen, the Lauterbrunnen Valley and the Mürren Cableway on the opposite side of the valley.
Wengen railway station