Guidebook to the Walker's Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt. The 225km route typically takes 2 weeks to walk. Described in 14 stages, the route crosses 11 passes between Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn and involves more than 14,000m of ascent and descent. A complete guide for planning and walking the route, with accommodation information.
Insight Guide to Switzerland is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Switzerland, choosing what to see, from exploring Lake Geneva to discovering Ticino or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Zurich and the Bernese Oberland. This is an ......
Guidebook to hiking the Tour de Monte Rosa (TMR) through the Swiss and Italian Alps. This 174km (108 mile) circular trek is a challenging alternative to the Tour du Mont Blanc, giving experienced trekkers the chance to explore some of the highest and most spectacular mountain scenery in the Alps. Described in 11 daily stages of ......
East to West across Switzerland a?? the Alpine Pass Route
Guidebook to the Swiss Via Alpina, a 400km trek east-west across Switzerland, with options of detouring along the Alpine Pass Route. This demanding 3-week trek crosses 16 passes, including the 2778m Hohturli, in a total of 19 stages from Sargans to Montreux, including a stage from Liechtenstein. Requires good fitness and experience.
Marco Polo Alps Map: the ideal map for your trip Let the Marco Polo Alps Road Map guide you around the Alps. Discover the most extensive mountain range in Europe with this highly durable, detailed, touring map. It folds away easily and is always on standby to help when you're stuck. Perfect touring map - the scale is 1 : 650 000 ideal to ......
Let PopOut Geneva guide you around this wonderful city. Discover the lakeside beauty of Geneva with ease with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail, this compact, dependable, Geneva city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. * Includes 2 PopOut maps - a detailed street map of central Geneva and ......
Walks and short treks in the Val d'HA (c)rens and Val d'Anniviers in the Swiss Valais
A guidebook to 35 day walks and 2 multi-day hikes in Switzerland’s Arolla and Zinal. Exploring the beautiful scenery of Val d’Herens and Val d’Anniviers, west of Zermatt, the routes are generally long and high but on well-maintained paths, with some calling for a good head for heights.
Day walks range from 9 to 22km (6–14 miles) and ......
Few thought of travelling to the Alps until John Ruskin extolled their rugged beauty in 1842. More than anyone, it was 25-year-old Edward Whymper who imbued them once again with a sense of alarming mystery after his Alpine memoir and first ascent of the Matterhorn. Inspiring the birth of mountain climbing, his book is still as fresh as when he ......
Lugano, Locarno and the mountains of southern Switzerland
Guide to 38 graded day walks in Ticino, Switzerland, covering Lugano, Locarno (Lake Maggiore), Bellinzona and Biasca, and Airolo and the St Gotthard Pass. Routes for all abilities, ranging from 4km to 19km, highlight the best the Ticino countryside has to offer, from villages and lush valleys, to stunning mountains and gushing waterfalls.
