Crash Landing on You|Kleine Scheidegg — The Pass Where She Decided to Fly Again

Kleine Scheidegg is a saddle at 2,061 metres between the Eiger and the Lauberhorn. Two rack railways meet here: the Wengernalp line from Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, and the Jungfrau Railway that disappears into the Eiger. Hotels and a wind-scoured plaza sit on the pass. On a clear day the north face is close enough to read the snow lines.

Crash Landing on You brings Yoon Se-ri to this terrace when she is still collecting hours toward a paragliding licence. The Jungfrau massif is the argument the drama makes for why a person would leave the ground. Guides still launch from the slopes below the pass. The production used the same public platforms a ticket from Interlaken Ost already reaches.

Eat at the pass if you want. The better use of the hour is to stand on the platform facing the Eiger and watch a train go into the rock. The series needed a mountain that looked inevitable. Scheidegg is a junction. The flying starts after you leave it.

Photo: Grindel1, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Kleine Scheidegg from the pass a railway still serves.