Category: mountains
Up to Planpraz, Chamonix
We were back in Chamonix … We wanted to do a bit of hiking, initially hoping to walk down from one of the peaks of Aiguilles Rouges (“Red Peaks”) – Le Brevent (2525 m or 8284 feet above sea level) down to Planpraz (around 2000 m or 6562 feet). But due to low cloud and…
Glacier 3000 in mid-summer, Les Diablerets
This was a visit we made a while back with our friend YS who came in July. We went hiking on the first day to Lac Liosin (click here for great pictures of the mountain lake). And on the second day, we went to Les Diablerets. Setting off from Leysin (where we stayed overnight), we drove back onto Route…
Colle del Gran San Bernardo
Although we have lived in Switzerland for a few years and are only about 2 hours from this famous mountain pass, we crossed the Alps via the Great St Bernard Pass (Colle del Gran San Bernardo or Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard) to Italy for the first time this summer. The pass was at an elevation of 8100 feet…
Jungfrau circuit #5: Grindelwald
This is the last post in the series on this delightful one-day tour of the Jungfrau area. Our trip started at Lauterbrunnen (click to see the first post of the series). From Interlaken Ost station to Jungfraujoch, one way, it took about 2.5 hours and two changes of train. But we came down the mountain…