Dent d'Herens
Dent d’Herens, Valais, Switzerland
Dent d'Herens is one of the fewer climbed 4000m+ peaks, maybe because you can't see it from any village in the valley, or maybe it's rather difficult to climb. However,…
Clouds over Maloja
Clouds Over Maloja
This image was selected as one of the 8 TOP Google+ Photographs for July 3 by PhotoExtract.com. Thank you Jarek! It's been a while since my last post, more than…
Alluvial Soil Colors
Alluvial Soil Moiry
With a bit of light, colors are everywhere, even in my much loved blue-white dominated high alpine mountain world. The melting waters of Glacier de Moiry, located at the beginning…
Vertical Depth
Looking into the vertical depths of 2’300m / 7500ft
The weather was mixed the morning of the last day of Easter in Zermatt, so we decided to choose a "small" ski tour, starting at the top station of…
Rock Gate
Rock Gate at the Swiss / Austrian Border
From the eastern part of swiss canton Grisons / Graubuenden, Austria is not far away. In fact, there some alpine high passes which mark the border of these two countries.…