Editorial
Where the mountains breathe
Mountains. Lots of high mountains. Between the Great St. Bernard Pass in the east and the Simplon Pass in the west of Valais are 45 peaks above 4,000 meters in elevation! In the bilingual Swiss canton of Valais, the mountains rule. For the modern man who thinks he...
Valais Lifestyle
Outside
When the mountains are around the corner, you make grateful use of them. This is how the people of Valais are. Whenever possible, they head out. On skis but increasingly on snowshoes, on foot or on touring skis. We are following their example in...
Destination Adventure
Saas-Fee/Saastal
The Saas-Fee/Saastal region is an exceptional location. Here the road ends and the adventure begins in a mountain world of glaciers and four-thousanders. You are not there yet in heaven, but you have come a long way. It's snowing. And not by...
Clouds, smugglers, and seven summits
Region Dents du Midi
Beneath the most beautiful peaks of Region Dents du Midi, where skiers now make carefree descents, smugglers tried to bring their contraband unseen from Switzerland to France. And vice versa. We follow the old routes and listen to the stories of...
