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The starting signal of this major race through Switzerland sounds at the crack of dawn at the Rhine Falls. The cyclists negotiate the first ascent on foot: the 300 steps leading from the “Känzeli” to the medieval castle called “Schloss Laufen”, where the bikes are lined up. Ambitious hobby racing cyclists and elite amateurs attempt to keep pace with current and former cycling pros, traversing Zurich’s “Weinland” to the Dübendorf airfield.
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The Silver Eagle soars up front, with the vintage airplanes gliding in its wake to make the transfer to the skiers waiting on the Jungfraujoch. The airdrop of the messenger bag from the airplanes is indeed the ultimate peak of the Red Bull Jungfrau-Stafette – and not just because it occurs at almost 4000 meters above sea level.
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Generations of ski athletes, together with freeriders and unsung heroes on the ski scene, wait on the Mönchsjoch for the relay bands to fall from the sky. Within minutes, they pulverize the several hundred meters of the altitude arduously gained by the pilots. The fall line leads them to their team mates on the Aletsch Glacier.
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The Aletsch Glacier is the ideal sporting challenge in the world natural heritage of UNESCO. Glacier runners depart from the Konkordia hut and race over the ice in pursuit of the Silver Eagle, carefully avoiding frosty crevices along the way.
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From the Aletsch Glacier up to the mountain station on Eggishorn – the alpine runners have chosen the most rigorous of the race’s 14 stages. Although all runners who complete this leg deserve to win a small Silver Eagle of their own, naturally it’s the team that counts at the Red Bull Jungfrau-Stafette.
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The paragliders seem to float effortlessly down to the valley. Wind and weather can be treacherous, however, and the descending flight to “Kühboden” is reserved for absolute masters only. For good measure, the critical task at the end of the stage is to drop the relay band from the air as close as possible to the biker waiting below.
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The downhill stretch offers most everything that amounts to a normal biker’s nightmare. Die-hard downhill bikers, on the other hand, tend to kiss the dust with joy on this 1000-meter descent.
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A special kind of motorcycle gang waits its turn in Fiesch. On motorbikes dating from the pre-war era, they seize their stretch of the relay though Valais on two wheels. Traffic rules must be observed. The winner of this stage is the rider who completes the stretch as close as possible to the stipulated time.
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Wild waters of the Vispa forge the Red Bull Jungfrau-Stafette ahead. On board kayaks in Stalden, the relay bands continue their journey, meaning an eight-kilometer sweeping and cold adventure for the paddlers and lots of hard work for their arms.
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On a spectacular drive on the winding roads through the Val d'Anniviers, racing cars from the nineteen-twenties and –thirties continue to pursue the Silver Eagle – as fast as their engines and the stipulated time will allow.
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The pilots are the only participants of the race who may select their own route, after having started in Sion and heading to their destination north of the Alps. The only thing defined is the finish of the eleventh stage: the target for the airdrop in Risch on Lake Zug. Flying at a low-level altitude, they home in on it, drop the relay bands from the air, take off and approach the airfield of their choice.
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This is a decisive phase in pursuit of the Silver Eagle. In this new discipline, swimmers take on their stretch of the relay, conveying the relay bands from Risch to the “Tellenörtli” lido in Oberwil located on the opposite shore of Lake Zug. Although their stage is one of the shortest, it is by far not the easiest.
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If there had been mountain bikes in the nineteen-thirties, the originators of the Stafette would certainly have included this discipline, for it suits Switzerland’s relief perfectly. From Oberwil the bikers pedal – and climb – their way over hill and dale to Sihlwald.
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Highs and lows in narrow passages converge once again in the final stretch. Departing from Sihltal, cross-country runners climb the 400-meter ascent to Hochwacht and follow the undulating Albis-Uetliberg ridge before making the descent to the finish line via Zurich, with relay band in hand in pursuit of the Silver Eagle.
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