Your first view of the Eiger massif will spoil you for the rest of your hiking days. The Via Alpina could offer nothing else and still be world-class. The chocolate, historic villages, on-time trains, ...

Location – 46.491121°, 7.563626° After coffee and quiche in the small but stylish village of Adelboden, we trekked east toward Kandersteg, gaining elevation quickly. Here, we look back at the village.

Switzerland is a country you can cross from one side to the other entirely on foot, sleeping in a mountain hut every night and never once pitching a tent. The trail that does it is the Via Alpina, and ...