{"id":9964,"date":"2014-11-09T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:59:41","slug":"mountain-climbing-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2014\/mountain-climbing-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain climbing in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cycled up the tallest, most fearsome peak in the whole of Berlin at midnight\u00a0last night.\u00a0Teufelsberg is a 120 m high mountain in the former West Berlin, built from 75,000,000 m3<\/sup> of rubble deposited there after the war. Buried underneath the mountain is an incomplete Nazi military-technical school designed by Albert Speer.<\/p>\n

The USA’s NSA organisation decided it would be a great idea to build one of their largest spy installations on top of the mountain during the 1960’s. The original spy domes and their protective fencing are still there.<\/p>\n

I can neither confirm nor deny if someone may have breached the outer perimeter to inspect the domes at close range \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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The moon was so bright that we could barely see any stars out.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is the entrance to the facility.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our group of explorers admiring the domes in all their moonlit glory.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Barbed<\/a>

There is double barbed wire fencing surrounding the top of the hill to protect the domes. Guards roam the grounds 24\/7, so anyone entering after hours should be super careful.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The domes looked beautiful in front of the full-moon.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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