Moriarty's Downfall
Sorry, couldn't resist the play on words. This is the view from atop the Reichenbach Falls.
[Spoiler alert!]
Here, on 4 May 1891, the world-famous fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes fought his erstwhile arch-enemy Professor James Moriarty, the 'Napoleon of Crime' and they plunged to their deaths from approximately where I stood to take the picture. Or at least that's the story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book, 'The Adventure of the Final Problem'.
The Falls are a series of waterfalls on the Reichenbach stream in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. They have a total drop of 250m. At 90m, the Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts in the Alps (you can see a link to a more conventional view below). Today, a hydro-electric power company harnesses the flow of the Reichenbach Falls during certain times of year, reducing its flow.
Seen in early June 1990, this image is scanned from a negative.
Moriarty's Downfall
Sorry, couldn't resist the play on words. This is the view from atop the Reichenbach Falls.
[Spoiler alert!]
Here, on 4 May 1891, the world-famous fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes fought his erstwhile arch-enemy Professor James Moriarty, the 'Napoleon of Crime' and they plunged to their deaths from approximately where I stood to take the picture. Or at least that's the story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book, 'The Adventure of the Final Problem'.
The Falls are a series of waterfalls on the Reichenbach stream in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. They have a total drop of 250m. At 90m, the Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts in the Alps (you can see a link to a more conventional view below). Today, a hydro-electric power company harnesses the flow of the Reichenbach Falls during certain times of year, reducing its flow.
Seen in early June 1990, this image is scanned from a negative.