STEINGLETSCHER

On 2 November 1992 at 4.13 p.m., the earth shook at the Susten Pass in the Bernese Oberland. More than 800 tonnes of ammunition and explosives blew up in a cavern near the Steingletscher glacier. Why?

Autorentext
Marcus Brian Vladimir Townend-Naef was born at the lake of Sarnen in central Switzerland in 1955, the son of the English writer Paul Townend and the Swiss-Russian hotelier Xenia Dansky. He worked as a waiter, chef and innkeeper in Kentucky, London and Berne. He then completed a degree in applied psychology in Zurich. He worked as a therapist, as a divorce counsellor, in addiction prevention and in health promotion. Today he works with overweight adolescents at the Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne and at the Burgenstock Health & Medical Excellence. He lives with his wife in Central Switzerland.