150 years of the Swiss Alpine Club
It was meant to be a five-hour hike and we’d been going for more than that already. We’d gained 1,000m of elevation, had just trudged through snow to the top […]
It was meant to be a five-hour hike and we’d been going for more than that already. We’d gained 1,000m of elevation, had just trudged through snow to the top […]
Switzerland isn’t short of a view. But, here in the Val d’Anniviers above Sierre, this one was particularly impressive. I was standing on a thin ridge, with the rough hiking […]
It’s a warm day in mid June, but some snow still lies in slushy puddles on this low alpine trail in Switzerland. We’ve been hiking for a couple of hours, […]
We were feeling lazy – but not that lazy. So we shelved our plans to hike a mountain and instead plumped for a gentle walk through the 11km stretch of […]
The Swiss aren’t famous for their transport system for nothing. Last weekend in Lucerne I was shown exactly why we should all bow down before it, not just because of […]
“The mountains turn people a bit crazy,” said the farmer’s wife as her husband filled up our water bottles from a cattle trough. Given we’d just attempted to hike down […]
We lay in the dim glow of candlelight, listening. The room was shaking. The electricity was out. The plastic table and chairs on the balcony clattered as they were flung […]
So, the Swiss have banned naked hiking. Yes, you read that right. The Swiss are so partial to trekking with their kit off that a judge has found the need […]