This was so crazy. The stories of cutting ropes of opposing climbers, dropping rocks on them, causing avalanches that buried hundreds are all so over the top.
Wow. I imagine firing artillery from the top of a mountain would be wild too.
Friends of mine live in Bassano del Grappa, which is near where the front was.
Actually, iirc, after Caporetto the Austrians got as far as the actual Grappa mountain and shelled the town from there.Anyway, as a consequence of the fact that glaciers on the Alps are disappearing, they keep finding shells, bodies and various WWI “memorabilia” that had been covered in ice for a century.
Like all WWI fronts, the one between Italy and Austria was fucking brutal.
7cm sounds a bit small
7cm is the projectile diameter, not the barrel length.
Ah, that makes more sense
