We went to the HIGHEST mountain in GERMANY! (Our EPIC day at Zugspitze)

we're on top of Germany [Music] [Music] woo we're currently exploring Germany for the very first time and after spending a few days in Munich checking out our first Christmas markets experiencing the city's architecture and history plus eating lots of German food we met up with some family and hopped on a 1 and a/2 hour train to our next destination in the country garish Parton kirkin tucked into the Bavarian Alps this town is an outdoor lovers Paradise with epic mountains all around including the zuk spitza the highest mountain in Germany at 2,962 M since today is the clearest weather we'll have while here we're going to spend the day visiting its Summit and to get there we have a bit of a journey [Music] ahead there are two main ways to get two and from jugs pizza from garish Parton kirkin first option is taking a cog wheeel train from here in garish Parton kirkin up to the zuk pitza plateau which is at 2,600 M and then take a cable car to the summit the second option is taking a car Cog wheeel train or a bus to Lake ipy and then taking a different cable car from Lake ipy all the way to the summit regardless of which you choose this roundtrip Journey cost €62 per adult we're going to take both ways today but for the journey to the summit we're going to try the first [Music] option zuk spitza was first summited back in 1820 which kicked off a desire to have the peak be accessible by all but it wasn't until 1930 that this Cog wheel train took its inaugural ride up to the plateau with a cable car the rest of the way to the summit being completed a year later and today the mountain receives about half a million visitors per [Music] year the train is really climbing now you can feel the elevation just on the train I'm leaning [Music] backwards the train ride lasts about 1 hour and 15 minutes and for the final stretch you climb 1100 M up the mountain through a dark 4 and 1 12 kmet long tunnel so you end the train ride in the tunnel and as you're riding through the tunnel the anticipation is just building and building but what the view will be like and it's time to finally go see it oh my God holy [Music] crap I have never seen so many Snowy Mountains in my entire life wow I've been to a few ski resorts around the world but nothing like this man how do you beat this we were actually supposed to explore down in town today but today is the only clear day that we were going to have the entire time we here so we knew we had to come up here cuz it's definitely pricey to get up here and it wouldn't be as worth it if you had no views and I am so glad that we did because it is Crystal Clear you can see I think 90 something kilomet right [Music] now [Music] so this is only the plateau of jug spitza to get to the summit we'll have to take a th000 meter cable car all the way up there but there are quite a bit of things you can do while here on the plateau it's home to one of Germany's last remaining glaciers you can hike the glacier Adventure trail go on a guided Glacier tour visit the highest Church in Germany ski stay in an igloo hotel and what we're most excited for tobogganing I saw a bunch of people going down the hill here and they were ripping down it is going to be so much [Music] fun I think this is our first time ever going [Music] sleding oh gosh I don't this is so cozy give me a countdown before we ready I don't know 2 1 we'll go slow oh this is really slow oh no it's getting [Laughter] faster shoot that was really fun our first one they have a handful of different runs here and that was definitely the easiest one and our goal is to now climb up one of these these larger Hills and slide down cuz that's where we saw the people were going super fast the only downside of this is you got to climb up to the top of the hill you want to come down so it's time to get a workout in it's around- one or -2° C today but it does not feel that cold at all with the sun just speeding on you and reflecting off of the snow and just climbing up the mountain oh no I don't know I don't know I don't know oh my gosh here we go here we go Fe down put your feet down I got fall oh fall lean right lean I got blasted oh shoot look at my face look at my face my face is BR I think I have a beard i e you have a big s e I think I was spinning and I didn't even realize it cuz I was so cold that was intense well we're going to do it again here we go oh my sunglasses went we just crash landed I hope we didn't break the thing this was soft nownow landed we were flying down the hill couldn't slow down couldn't turn right hard enough and we went into the soft stuff and as soon as you hit the Soft Stuff you're going to stop and we just went right over the front of the sled tumbling over snow everywhere okay my sunglasses snapped I've had these sunglasses for at least 10 years and today they died and I'm kind of sad about that to be honest and now let's see if the sled um is in good condition it's still in one piece we didn't buy the insurance we were going to go down the really curvy one but I think we just proved to everyone that we can't turn very well so I think we're going to skip that one and maybe just go back towards the front my feet are staying down the entire time this time this is still fun this is still a good speed even though we crashed it was so much fun so they have CAF up here where you can buy food and drinks but we decided to bring our own smoosh sandwiches to enjoy with a view cheers to surviving to bogging barely barely oh all right now it's time to go to the Sun D [Music] [Applause] it we're on top of Germany [Music] [Music] woo so we have been to nine US State high points but this is the first time ever being to the highest point of a country although we're not technically at the summit the official Summit is where the Golden Cross is just over there unfortunately it's too snowy to get up there right now but in the summertime you can climb some ladders up to the top so I guess technically we're not at the highest point in Germany but it's close enough from here you can see over 400 mountain peaks from four countries Germany Austria Italy and Switzerland in fact zuk spitza is located right on the border of Germany and Austria so somewhere up here we can walk on over into Austria so we're going to try to go find it I am standing on the border of Germany and Austria Germany Austria my first time in Austria it's much much windier on the side that is a cold [Music] wind you can just see how much windier it is on the Austria side because of all the snow and ice just stuck on all the poles and the wires in the [Music] buildings at the summit there's a summit station with glass architecture and to me it looks like a villain's lir straight out of a James Bond film inside there's a restaurant called Panorama 2962 we're going to head inside and defrost a little bit with a warm [Music] drink we've said this a lot over the years but this may be the best we've ever had all drinking coffee this one yeah look at [Music] that unfortunately it's time for us to go back down and to get there we're going to ride in cable car zuk spitza which takes you from the summit all the way back down to Lake iy the first cable car from the valley to the zuk spitza summit was built in the 1960s and in 2015 a new cable car was built which holds three World Records its steel supports are the highest of their kind at 127 M it gains 1,945 m in elevation and it has the longest freely suspended section of rope in the world at 3.2 [Music] km woo woo [Music] we are packed in here but from the little views I can see it is incredible we're going down right around sunsets there's this alen glow on the mountains and the Peaks are still sunny but everything else is in the shadows it is [Music] beautiful that ride was super quick it only took about 10 minutes or so and for the final leg of our journey we're hopping back on the Cog wheeel train to [Music] garish we have made it back to garish Parton kirkin after an incredible day at zuk spitza it wasn't without a couple loaves though as yall saw I broke my precious sunglasses rest in peace I've had those things for so long so it feels kind of like a part of my identity is gone and then I also learned that when I fell on my face on my sunglasses the sunglasses bruis the top of my nose so I'll have a cool little Mark for the foreseeable future and then one other thing that happened today that was kind of a bummer is before we even got here our main filming lens broke so now we're on the hunt to find a new one but even with all of that it was such a high literally to finally get to visit zuk pza after years of wanting to go there we normally visit the mountains in the summer when we can go hiking so it was a fun change of pace to be able to see the Epic Mountain scenery in its winter conditions it was so magical but there's more to do in the area and so over the next few days we're going to explore more of the beautiful nature and Local 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