Posts from 2006
Don’t look down
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Jo and I decided to stop being so lazy and to get our bums out of the house, to enjoy the beginnings of autumn and to get up a mountain before the snow makes it into all to much of an effort. We chose the Niederhorn, which we’ve often photographed from our lofty nest across
Rhone Glacier
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Can you spot the Meads? Despite the rapid rate at which the glacier is shrinking, it’s still a very impressive sight.
Devil’s Bridge
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According to legend, the first “Devil’s Bridge” was established by the devil himself. The locals of canton Uri, where the bridge stands, were always unsuccessful in their attempts to establish a bridge across the deep gorge. Finally a chief official called out desperately: “Do sell der Tyfel e Brigg bue” (“Let the Devil build a bridge
Them Again
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Almost every day, without fail by fine weather, this woman walks with her child in a pushchair along the lakeside path opposite my office. Every time, the child is wearing her hair in bunches and a pair of oversized dark sunglasses and they pause on these rocks for the mother to take photographs. The mother
