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 ...

In a bid to remain competitive, the local authorities have given the green light for couples to use the lakes and mountains of the Bernese Oberland as attractive backdrops. They are due to ...

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 ...

It's in the Bernese Oberland, and not really on the road to anywhere, it's unshowy, downbeat and lovely. The Belle Epoque Hotel Victoria has been there since 1789, amazingly, but grew considerably ...

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 ...