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Author: Diane Greer Publisher: ISBN: 9780997478051 Category : Languages : en Pages : 510
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This book showcases over 100 of the best hiking trails in the Swiss Alps focusing on the Valais, Bernese Alps, the Engadine and Davos.Switzerland boasts a stunning collection of majestic, glacier-clad peaks soaring above idyllic valleys cloaked in emerald green meadows and lovely forests. An extensive network of well-marked and maintained trails allows hiker's easy access to this spectacular alpine scenery.Day hikers will delight in the variety of base camps, ranging from villages and small towns to world class resorts, each with great trail systems containing more than enough hiking for a weeklong vacation. The country's excellent trail network connects the various base camps creating sensational point-to-point multi-day hiking trips.The trails in this opinionated guide will appeal to day hikers who like to go high and walk 5.0 to 12 miles/day. Elevation gains range from negligible to over 4,000-ft. Many of the trails offer intermediate turnaround points for hikers seeking shorter days. All the trails include detailed trail description with ratings, elevation profiles, maps and photographs.Hiking areas covered in the Valais are centered around Zermatt, Saas Fee, Zinal, Gruben, Les Hauderes and Arolla. Trails in the Bernese Alps feature trail systems near Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, Griesalp, Kandersteg, Adelboden and Meiringen. This section also includes hikes in the Glarus and Uri Alps near Altdorf and Engelberg. Featured hikes in the Engadine Valley focus on St. Moritz and Pontresina in the Upper Engadine and Scuol in the Lower Engadine along with nearby Davos.Sections also include multiday hiking opportunities along the Walker's Haute Route in the Valais and the Alpine Pass Route (Via Alpina) in the Bernese and Central Alps.
Author: Diane Greer Publisher: ISBN: 9780997478051 Category : Languages : en Pages : 510
Book Description
This book showcases over 100 of the best hiking trails in the Swiss Alps focusing on the Valais, Bernese Alps, the Engadine and Davos.Switzerland boasts a stunning collection of majestic, glacier-clad peaks soaring above idyllic valleys cloaked in emerald green meadows and lovely forests. An extensive network of well-marked and maintained trails allows hiker's easy access to this spectacular alpine scenery.Day hikers will delight in the variety of base camps, ranging from villages and small towns to world class resorts, each with great trail systems containing more than enough hiking for a weeklong vacation. The country's excellent trail network connects the various base camps creating sensational point-to-point multi-day hiking trips.The trails in this opinionated guide will appeal to day hikers who like to go high and walk 5.0 to 12 miles/day. Elevation gains range from negligible to over 4,000-ft. Many of the trails offer intermediate turnaround points for hikers seeking shorter days. All the trails include detailed trail description with ratings, elevation profiles, maps and photographs.Hiking areas covered in the Valais are centered around Zermatt, Saas Fee, Zinal, Gruben, Les Hauderes and Arolla. Trails in the Bernese Alps feature trail systems near Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, Griesalp, Kandersteg, Adelboden and Meiringen. This section also includes hikes in the Glarus and Uri Alps near Altdorf and Engelberg. Featured hikes in the Engadine Valley focus on St. Moritz and Pontresina in the Upper Engadine and Scuol in the Lower Engadine along with nearby Davos.Sections also include multiday hiking opportunities along the Walker's Haute Route in the Valais and the Alpine Pass Route (Via Alpina) in the Bernese and Central Alps.
Author: Kev Reynolds Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited ISBN: 1849654883 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 582
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This comprehensive book is an excellent planning resource for those who wish to venture into the Swiss Alps. Whether you are planning a walk, scramble, climb or ski tour this larger format guide describes each mountain area throughout Switzerland - the peaks, passes, valleys and bases - to help readers identify the best destinations for their chosen mountain activity. Dozens of individual valleys are described, together with the mountains that wall them, with recommendations given for their finest walks, treks and climbs. Working eastwards across the country, this guide is divided into seven chapters: Chablais Alps, Pennine Alp, Lepontine and Adula Alps, Bernina, Bregaglia and Albula Alps, Bernese Alps, Central Swiss Alps and the Silvretta and Ratikon Alps, each devoted to a specific range or group of connecting ranges. However, this is not a route guide and detailed descriptions are not provided. The aim of the book is to inspire as well as inform; to show first-time visitors just what the Swiss Alps have to offer and provide a new perspective for those who have been before.
Author: Kev Reynolds Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited ISBN: 1783622067 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 372
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Over 100 walking routes in the Bernese Oberland are described in this guidebook, suitable for all abilities from short flat walks to adventurous treks. Routes range from 2 to 24km in a region that boasts famous peaks such as the Eiger, Monch and the Jungfrau. But there are lesser-known mountains, too, that are just as scenically dramatic. Add to that the romantic valleys, lakes, flower-filled meadows and a network of mountain huts and rustic inns and you'll understand why the Bernese Alps seduce the hiker back year after year. The guide is divided into nine chapters: Haslital, Lutschental, Lauterbrunnental, Kiental, Kandertal, Engstligental, Ober Simmental, Lauenental and Saanental, with a regional focus around Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, Gsteig and Meiringen, Kandersteg, Griesalp and others. The layout of this guide follows an east-west convention, beginning with the Haslital and working west from valley to valley as far as Col du Pillon below Les Diablerets. Additionally, the guidebook includes useful practical information on getting to and around the region, where to stay and how to prepare for a trip into the Bernese Alps.
Author: Kev Reynolds Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited ISBN: 1849653798 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 256
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An inspirational larger format guidebook to 20 summer treks in the Alps across Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France and Slovenia, including the classics such as the Tour of Mont Blanc and lesser-known routes like the Traverse of the Slovenian Alps. Perfect for planning, the treks included are: Tour of Mont Blanc, Tour of the Matterhorn, Tour of Monte Rosa, Walker's Haute Route, Tour of the Jungfrau Region, Tour of the Vanoise and Dolomites AV 1 & 2; (longer trans-Alpine routes) GR5 (Lake Geneva to Nice), Eastern Alps E5, Italian Alps GTA and the Traverse of the Slovenian Alps; and (for the Alpine adventurer) Alpine Pass Route, Tour of the Oisans, Tour of the Queyras, Tour of Mont Ruan, Stubai High Route, Zillertal High Route, Gran Paradiso AV2 and the Ratikon Hoehenweg. Outline schedules for each trek allow you compare the routes and become inspired to take up the challenge. Basic day-by-day route descriptions for each route are illustrated with maps and profiles, helping you choose the best routes to walk.
Author: Robert J. Reinke Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1512776963 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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John begins the trip back home for the coming school year. Suddenly, John finds himself up against the greatest challenge of his life--lost in the Rocky Mountain backcountry amidst unforgiving elements and the battlegroud of his own mind. Will John survive?
Author: Lesley Williams Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited ISBN: 1783628340 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 310
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A guidebook to 50 graded day walks in Switzerland’s Valais. Exploring the areas around the towns of Zermatt and Saas-Fee in the Mattertal and Saastal valleys, the walks are suitable for beginner and experienced walkers alike. Walks range from 4 to 29km (3–18 miles) and can be enjoyed in 2–10 hours. The routes make the most of the area's extensive network of well-made mountain paths and its lift system to explore Europe’s highest mountains. 1:50,000 maps included for each route GPX files available to download Detailed information on planning, transport and amenities Highlights include the Swiss 4000m giants Matterhorn and Monte Rosa
Author: Kev Reynolds Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited ISBN: 1783626445 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 128
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This guidebook describes a 111km circuit amid some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in all the Swiss Alps. The Tour of the Jungfrau Region is described as a clockwise hut-to-hut circuit, beginning at Schynige Platte and ending at Wilderswil, broken into 10 stages (with a number of high and low- level alternatives offered). The route is suitable for hikers with some alpine experience. The 111km trek takes you in a horseshoe loop through the Bernese Oberland's most spectacular mountain scenery, in the shadow of such iconic peaks as Wetterhorn, Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau. In a journey of 9 to 10 days the Tour visits pastures, ridges, summits and passes, skirts exquisite mountain lakes and gazes on waterfalls, gorges and glaciers. The guide contains all the information needed, including a trek planner, maps and profiles. On practically every stage modestly priced dormitories are available and, as meals are provided everywhere, walkers can trek unencumbered by heavy rucksacks.
Author: Martin S. Monsch Publisher: Martin S. Monsch ISBN: 390732305X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 298
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A journey in search of Middle-earth In 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this trip had deeply affected him. Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, he said, was based on his own adventures in 1911. Tolkien himself named a few specific sources of inspiration, most explicitly the Silberhorn (Silverhorn). So I wondered: Was this perhaps only the tip of the iceberg? Following in Tolkien's footsteps, I myself set out into the spectacular mountain world with its stories, myths, and legends, in search of his sources of inspiration; and little by little, a vivid and mysterious world revealed itself to me: a world that helped shape Middle-earth. More than 100 color images accompany the author's research and discovery journey, along with 11 hiking and 3 road trip suggestions that allow readers to recreate Tolkien's experience with all its impressions themselves in the Swiss mountains. "This book is above all else an invitation to step into Tolkien's hiking shoes, shoulder his pack, and step back a century into a world which is as far from today as Middle-earth is from our world; a guidebook of impressions, a walking tour of the nature of imagination and the imagination of nature." - John Howe
Author: Helen Fairbairn Publisher: ISBN: 9781740593953 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Details on each of the best walks through the Alps in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia are enhanced by quality two-colour maps. There is special coverage of the classic Walker's Haute Route and the spectacular Tour du Mont Blanc as well as practical advice on language, gear, safety, food and accommodation.
Author: Diane Greer
Author: Diane Greer
Author: Kev Reynolds
Author: Kev Reynolds
Author: Kev Reynolds
Author: Robert J. Reinke
Author: Lesley Williams
Author: Kev Reynolds
Author: Sir John Lubbock
Author: Martin S. Monsch
Author: Helen Fairbairn