BMI, the ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in metres, is a common, if imperfect, gauge of whether someone is over- or underweight.

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In the Albula Valley the track spirals to gain height, and around the austere grandeur of the Bernina Pass becomes one of the world's steepest narrow-gauge railways.

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