When I decided I was going to be in Japan for nearly three weeks in July this year, I knew I wanted to climb Fuji. So did Iain. He’d spent the last two months in Nagoya for his PhD and I’d be meeting him out there. So we started making plans of how to make it happen.
This three-day hike has completely changed my idea of Montreux, by finding out what’s around it and above it. Beautiful mountains aren’t just in the Berner Oberland, after all.
At the end of October, I knew I needed a break from Switzerland for a…
After I arrived in Longyearbyen midday on Sunday, it didn’t take long to settle into…
– – – – – May 13-14, 2017 Our Saturday starting point: Arolla, around 12:30 pm and…
After nearly a year of living in Meiringen, the mountains I see every day are becoming familiar friends. Yet naming them and knowing their history is another story, something I’ve become more and more ashamed of.
I had read a little about the Via Alpina green trail, the hiking route that…