Even the monks of St.Bernard, who rescue snowbound travellers, have now equipped their mountain with a series of telephone booths.
The highest telephone in the world is on the peak of Monte Rosa, in the Italian Alps, very nearly three miles above the level of the sea.

It is linked to a line that runs to Rome, in order that a queen may talk to a professor.

In this case the Queen is Margherita of Italy and the professor is Signor Mosso, the astronomer, who studies the heavens from an observatory on Monte Rosa.

At her own expense, the Queen had this wire strung by a crew of linemen, who slipped and floundered on the mountain for six years before they had it pegged in place.

The general situation in Italy is like that in Great Britain.