Lucy Fuggle, Author at Lucy Fuggle

My year in books: A few favourites from 2017

2018: 41 books, 11,211 pages. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

Hurtling through trees and bouncing off rocks: a slow journey to becoming a trail runner (sort of)

I’m not very good, I’ll emphasise that now. But I love it. I love bouncing off rocks and tree stumps, dodging branches, and seeing how fast I can go downhill. I love occasionally escaping work in the late afternoon and heading up Harder Kulm, the local hill. At 1,321m, it just about qualifies as a mountain.

Climbing Mount Toubkal, the highest summit of North Africa at 4167m

At the end of October, I knew I needed a break from Switzerland for a…

Walking across the Berner Oberland on the Via Alpina

Every so often, I check in to see how my life is going in different…

Building our relationship with a place day by day, just by looking

I spend a lot of time alone, but a lot of that is time looking out at the mountains. I love hiking in them on solitary weekends and letting the environment help me process what’s going on in life and where I’m heading. Those days make me feel light, happy, and at home.

Hiking Stage 14 of the Via Alpina from Kandersteg to Adelboden

The hiking season passed by too quickly last year, so this year I’m trying to make better use of it. After ticking off two more Via Alpina hikes the previous two weekends (Griesalp-Kandersteg and Engelberg-Meiringen), I decided to continue from where I left off in Kandersteg and head towards Adelboden.