Reschen Pass a projected railway connection were also built; however, these plans were finally abandoned after World War II. Reschen Pass Reschen Pass ( ; ) is a mountain pass across the Main chain of the Alps, connecting the Upper Inn Valley in the northwest with the Vinschgau region in the southeast. Since 1919, the border between South Tyrol, Italy and Tyrol, Austria has approximately followed the watershed, the pass summit at a height of being completely on Italian territory. Reschen is one of the principal passes of the Alps, located between Brenner Pass to the east and the Splügen to the
Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner is an American author and professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as "Allure", "Seventeen", "Travel & Leisure", "The Oxford American", "The Sun (magazine)", "Ploughshares", and "Mississippi Review", and have been anthologized in "The Best American Essays", "Best American Magazine Writing", and "New Stories From the South", as well as other anthologies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts