THIS is the first volume of a series of four intended to guide climbers to the peaks and passes of the High Alps of the Bernese Oberland. The routes are arranged in chronological order of the ...

We're in Grindelwald, one of those postcard-perfect mountain towns that Switzerland does so well, a hamlet of wooden farmhouses and snow-blanketed pastures deep in the Bernese Oberland ...

A century later, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland, a recreational via ferrata neutralises my own longstanding battle with heights. The words via ferrata loosely translate as iron path or iron way ...