Isn't this just another pointless gadget for the kitchen that jumps on the 'mountains are totally in'trend? The initial skepticism fades with every snack. The more often I prepare my ham in slices and cut my slices of bread with millimeter precision, the more I like the PanoramaKnife. And every time I think of this ridge tour on the Blassen...
I wonder how the inventor came up with the idea of the PanoramaKnife...? After a strenuous ascent on touring skis through north-facing slopes prone to avalanches, he was probably leaning against the summit cross and enjoying the panorama around him. "I did this summit back then and I'll do that one soon", he must have told his mountain companion. All those peaks - what are they called again? At the same moment, he probably pulled out his knife to cut the Tyrolean bacon for the summit snack. PLING! "My knife looks just like the mountain peaks back there when turned upside down!"
Who invented it? A Swiss, of course! They had to invent it sooner or later with all the jags around them. There are now bread knives, utility knives, chopping boards, tea towels and knife blocks with the unique panoramas of the Bernese Oberland, Valais, Glarus and many more. Even Germany is now represented with the Zugspitze panorama and I recently took possession of this very knife. And I'm delighted every time I look at the panorama from new.
Apart from the fact that the knives work brilliantly - I have the feeling that the mountain serrations simply cut better than normal serrations - I'm reminded every time of this strenuous ridge tour to the Hochblassen. In spring, we started early in the morning at the Stuibenhütte. It quickly became clear that this would be a strenuous undertaking in the soggy, wet snow. Hours passed before we arrived at the summit without any breath. But that's another story...
In addition, I can now finally score points again with my modern mountain companions, who always pull out their Smart Fon at the summit. While they call up this infamous summit app, I will in future enjoy cutting my Swiss cheese, turning the PanoramaKnife around, aiming at the horizon with a skillful gaze and interjecting a slightly arrogant "No, Louis, that's not the Hochkönig, that's the Hochwanner!". For distant adventures, however, I would have to buy a new knife with the corresponding mountain panorama before every tour. I think I'd rather spend more time in the Zugspitze region for now!
A few sights of Berlin are now also immortalized on the first city panorama knife. What would interest me? Does anyone there have such memories of tremendous climbing efforts at the pinnacles there (Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Potsdamer Platz, etc.)? If so, please let the PG editorial team know!
