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 ...

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 ...

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 ...