So you climb up this sturdy ladder that goes into the clouds
and 3 miles up you climb past the misty cloud and keep going up.
Finally you come out the top of the cloud and get your first glance at what the ladder is attached to.
Not a dirigible
But a World War One Zeppelin that has hung up here for a century.
Much of the outer fabric is in tatters and you can see parts of its metal skeleton.
Various lines sway and dangle from the doomed ghost airship
and as you climb todards its cabin you can see back shadowy shapes sneaking about in the main hull.
The engines are stilled but the strong draft of rising
air tells you why the craft didn't plummet to the ground decades ago.
Finally you get to the open door of the control gondala and climb inside a scene from a century ago.
The dead German officers and crew,now skeletons in their tattered uniforms,lie
slumped in the seats whilst by the Zeppelins wheel lies various bones and a skull of whom you assume was the crafts helmsman.
Carefully you make you way past the first few boney occupants and come apon the private stateroom
and slowly open the creaking cabin door