The granola bar is a much-appreciated break-time and stomach-filler, but there’s just no room for it in the history books. Remarkable things often happen because people have eaten a steak first, or, see Eve, because they just couldn’t resist a red apple. The muesli bar, on the other hand, is regarded as a rather attention-shy companion, only crumbs remind of its existence after consumption. No prose is written about granola bars, there is about granola bars hardly noticed advertising clips on Youtubenot more.
It is therefore only appropriate that the bar was given the role it deserved. “Climbers survive avalanches and blizzards thanks to snow caves and granola bars”, headlined the British Guardians last. And in the large muesli bar factory in Bad Schwartau, Schleswig-Holstein, they may have cheered for a moment while reading. Behind the news is the trek of two men who walked New Zealand’s great mountain range, the Remarkables. On the third day of their journey, they triggered an avalanche and got no further. A rescue failed. So they dug a cave in the snow and endured. When a rescuer called to see how the men were, the answer was, “You know, we have about 10 to 15 granola bars.” How reassuring, the rescuer may have thought.
The fact that the two were rescued relatively unscathed the next morning may have been due to the physical condition of the hikers. Or the ability to dig a walk-in hole. Or you do it like that Guardians. And indirectly declares the muesli bar to be the hero in the snow.
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