Zugspitze is reached on the rack railway from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

BBC: Five European winter boltholes

The rack railway that winds its way up makes its final climb inside the mountain, leaving passengers to emerge blinking onto the snowfield at the top, where the igloo village takes shape every winter.

BBC: Five European winter boltholes

You name it, they have run a railway up it, by hook or by crook, by rack or by pinion and by Albula and St Moritz.

BBC: Full steam ahead