"Thieves in Switzerland have conquered one of the country’s most challenging protected climbing routes.
They ascended to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges on narrow steel cables - all to rob a collection box.
The box belongs to a local climbing club, which maintains Switzerland’s longest protected climbing route on the Gemmi pass above Leukerbad village.
What has caused the biggest shock is that the donation box is accessible only to the most experienced climbers.
The route, known as a via ferrata, is classed as level 5, the most difficult, and involves serious climbing as well as ascending ladders bolted into the vertical rock face, and traversing gorges on narrow steel cables."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66628465
Probably an inside outside job
How do they know that this has shocked Switzerland? It’s actually the first I’ve heard of it and frankly I’m not shocked, only dismayed.
The BBC is more and more like a tabloid, but worse.
They didn't even get the facts right - K6 is the hardest via ferrata grade.
Let’s just blame it on some tourists, likely British.
A heist? More like stealing money out of the church collection box. You wouldn‘t call that a heist, just something done by unscrupulous characters. I guess the mountain climbing community also have their black sheep.
What's common in rock climbing and stealing? the adrenaline! Someone needed a boost as one was not enough
Seems like an awful lot of effort to go to for a few hundred chuffs if you ask me.
I'm sure they didn't go there solely for that purpose. They were probably there anyway and thought they would use the opportunity as nobody else was around. Really sad person...
My guts just churned at the thought of a few hundred... Chuffs.
They probably only got away with with enough money to buy a round of dinner....at McDonalds. Or one cocktail in a Swiss bar.
I was not talking about chuffs as in CHian lagal tender.😊