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Someone In Switzerland Made This Mountain Finder Device And It’s Brilliant
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Someone In Switzerland Made This Mountain Finder Device And It’s Brilliant

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It’s easy to get lost in a mountainous area – distance towards a particular object is often uncertain and you can easily mistake one summit for another.

To solve this problem, somebody made an awesome mountain finder device in Switzerland! Pipes are named after the peaks they are pointing to, and mounted (ha, get it?) on a cylinder. If a hiker peeks (I’m on fire today) through one end, he sees the mountain that he is looking for at the other. Simple!

More info: reddit.com

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Rokas Laurinavičius

Rokas Laurinavičius

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Rokas Laurinavičius

Rokas Laurinavičius

Author, BoredPanda staff

Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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