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…
Every so often, I check in to see how my life is going in different…
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.
– – – – – 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.
08:10. Left my house a bit later than planned, but easily buy a half-day ski…
I had read a little about the Via Alpina green trail, the hiking route that…