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General Pages for this Country:
- Mountain Hiking in Switzerland from easy to difficult, twelve of them, short descriptions
- Mountain huts - Swiss réfuges List of all the huts
- Swiss Alpine Huts Another list of huts
- Ken Baldry’s crossing Switzerland on Foot From Austria to France. A very informative site about a 25-days-trip. Check this out if you are planning a long distance walk in Switzerland
- Homepage of Roman Koch about Swiss Alps: a pleasant, well organised site, lots of things, nice pictures (German)
- Paul Sirugo’s Deep Blue Lair: Travelling: Switzerland Very inspiring site if you are looking for pre-enjoyment of your hikes in Switzerland. Many attractive pictures, very well organised.
- Schweizer Wanderwege SAW or: Swiss Hiking Federation. Map gives entry to many trail descriptions in the different Cantons.
- Swissmountains General information.
Hiker's home pages in this country:
- Ken Baldry’s Alpine Pages Good page for anyone planning long distance hikes in the Alps. Check this out
- Brückenbauer Page on Traveling and Hiking Several short walks in Switzerland and elsewhere in the Alps (German)
- Traveling with Ed and Julie who give a very complete introduction
- Roman Koch a pleasant, well organised site, lots of things, nice pictures (German)
- Erhard Loretan He climbed all 8000’ers and many more. Sadly, the link is not working currently
- Paul Sirugo’s Deep Blue Lair Very inspiring site if you are looking for pre-enjoyment of your hikes in Switzerland. Many attractive pictures, very well organised.
- Ski Touring - randonnée à ski Site about ski touring in high mountains (French)
Organisations, Clubs and Alpine associations:
- Aargauer Wanderwege Hiking Association in the Kanton of Aargau, North (Deutch)
- Akademischer Alpen-Club Zürich or AACZ. Home site of this Alpine Club. If you like to view pictures, here you will find a lot of them.
- Berner Wanderwege Hiking Association in Bern.
- Bündner Wanderwege (BAW) Hiking Association in the Eastern Canton of Graubünden; good site (German)
- Luzerner Wanderwege Hiking Association in the Kanton of Luzern (German)
- SAC-CAS Swiss Alpine Association
- Schwyzer Wanderwege Hiking Association in this central Kanton
- Solothurner Wanderwege Hiking Association in Solothurn (North). (German)
- Associazione ticinese per i sentieri escursionistici Ticino Association for Hiking Trails (Italian)
- Urner Wanderwegverein Hiking Association in Urn (Center) (German)
- Zürcher Wanderwege (ZAW) Hiking Association around Zürich (German)
- Maps: Bundesambt fuer Landestopographie Wabern, Schweiz Topographical Survey
- Weather in Switzerland (suggestion: visit the section Handy Links)
- SBB Travel Online Travel plan of the Swiss Railways
Commercial sites: shops, travel agencies, book stores, courses
- Guide alpine Ticino - Scuola svizzera di alpinismo A climbing school (dead link?)
- International School of Mountaineering, Switzerland
- Filidor Climbing Magazine. Another short-lived ezine (dead link?) (German)
- Freeclimbing Switzerland This one still works
- Climb of the Alphubel Map and short description (Dutch)
- Les Diablerets Short description (French) of a two days walk, pictures.
- Escalade à Genève - Salève Climbing guide for Geneva
- Gommer Höhenweg Short description (Dutch)
- Allalinhorn 4027m Report of the climb
- Allalinhorn Short description of the climb and some information, B&W pictures
- Allalinhorn 4027 meter and Weissmies 4023 meter, Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Barrhorn (3610 meter) Wallis; including map and fine pictures.
- Lauteraarhütte - Ewigschneehorn Slide show, good pictures
- Finsteraarhorn Slide show, good pictures
- Berner Alpen - Gross Grünhorn (4044 m) and Finsteraarhorn (4274 m) Diary, pictures (German)
- A hike around Zermatt, Berner Oberland Trip diary (Swedish)
- Bernina Maps, pictures and descriptions (dutch)
- Grünegghorn, 3860 meter, and Trugberg, 3880 meter, Berner Oberland Tour description (Swedish)
- Chapütschin (3386) and Piz Glüschaint (3596) Near Bernina. Trip report with pictures. (German)
- Bishorn, 4153m Diary, pictures (German)
- Bishorn (4153) Valais. Trip report with pictures.
- Climb of the Bishorn Map and short description (Dutch)
- Breithorn (4164 m) Wallis; very nice pictures (Dutch)
- Haute Route Skitour from Chamonix to Saas Fee. A.o. Breithorn (German)
- Breithorn Description of the climb, scetch map
- Breithorn 4165 meter, Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Doldenhorn Climb report (Dutch)
- Dom - 4545 m Description of the climb (German)
- Dom - 4545 m Report of a climb (Dutch)
- Dufour-Spitze, 4634 m., highest mountain of Switzerland Diary with pictures (German)
- Eggerhorn, Oberwallis, 2503 m Short trip report, pictures. (Dutch)
- Eiger Live I don’t like these glossy type pages with more black on your screen than any useful information. Anyway.
- Eiger 3970 meter, Berner Oberland Tour description; not the North Face (Swedish)
- Eiger nordwand Short climb report.
- Folluhorn, 2656 m Short trip report, pictures. (Dutch)
- Graubünden, Greina Ebene, Piz Medel, Piz Terri, Val da Camp 5 days hike around the Piz Medel, and a very good trip for children in Val da Camp, on the border with Italy
- Jura - Cross country skiing Short description (French) of a day tour and pictures
- Matterhorn - 4478 Description of the climb (German)
- Cervin - ou Matterhorn - (4 478 m): Arête du Hörnli Short description, and pictures (French)
- Matterhorn Picture series
- Matterhorn, 4478 meter, Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Matterhorn (Hörnligrat; 4478 m) Very practical description of the climb
- Matterhorn Shots around Zermatt - August 1997
- Matterhorn Climbing history and description of “Normal Weg”
- Mönch 4099 meter, Berner Oberland Tour description (Swedish)
- Mönch 4099 meter, and Jungfrau, 4165 meter, Berner Oberland Tour description (Swedish)
- Haute Route Chamonix - Zermatt Diary and pictures (Dutch)
- Monte Rosa - 4634 m Description of the climb (German)
- Mont Rose - pointe Dufour (4 634 m) Short description of the climb, and pictures (French)
- Obergabelhorn (4063 m) Practical description (German)
- Piz Palü (3905 m) Alpine club tour of DAV section Überlingen; report and pictures
- Schwarzhorn (3202meter) Wallis; Map, photographs
- Strahlhorn, 4190m Description of the climb (German)
- Acros the Urner Alps Diary with pictures (German)
- Day hikes in the Vanoise Short hikes and a three-day hike. Maps and good pictures
- Backpacking tour 1999 Report of a hike in Wallis during a week. Including the internet links of the huts visited (Dutch).
- Wallis Picture gallery and the two main climbs: Monte Rosa and Matterhorn (French)
- Autumn hike in Wallis Beautiful pictures
- Allalinhorn (4027m) and Strahlhorn (4190 m ) Slide show, good pictures
- Wallis Presentation of this area; description of hiking possibilities; lots of pictures (Dutch)
- The Wallis hiking archive Schwarzhorn, Barrhorn, Breithorn and others; every mountain it’s page, pictures etc (Dutch)
- Weissmies (4023m) Slide show with good pictures
- Mont Brulé (3498 m) (Pointe Oulz) / Cabane de Velan Slide show with good pictures
- Wallis 1997 Climb of Bishorn, Pigne d’Arolla and Mont Blanc de Cheilon. Climb report, pictures (Dutch)
- Nadelhorn, 4327 meter, Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Plattenhorn, 2600 meter, and Wildstrubel, 3242 meter, Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Torrenthorn, 2998 meter Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Wallis Diary (dutch) and pictures of a trip on the border of Italy
- Arolla in Wallis Report of a climbing tour
- Wetterhorn, 3701 meter, Berner Oberland Tour description (Swedish)
- Zinal Rothorn, 4221 meter, Wallis Tour description (Swedish)
- Rotondohütte This site describes many walks and climbs, in winter and in summer, around this hut.
- Sentiero basso della valle di Blenio Hike in two stages in the valley of Blenio: map and description (Italian)
- Gratwanderung im Wägital Trip report and BW pictures (German)