Blog posts about alps at Permanent Tourist

Re-photographing the Bernese Alps from a viewpoint I found last year.

The sun shines through a small hole in the rock face of the Eiger at Grindelwald for a couple of minutes, twice every year.

Panoramic aerial photograph of the Tschingellochtighorn in Switzerland

Obstinacy got me past a viewpoint I had aimed for and gave me the opportunity to capture a wonderfully dramatic alternative image.

By Christian Cueni.

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Sitting, cross-legged, a couple of arms’ length from the edge of a two-and-a-half-thousand foot drop to the valley floor, watching clouds drift across the lake into the distance.

There’s a trend these days for people to use the word “stunning”: from tabloid newspapers to t.v. presenters. And their use of the word so often makes everyone else use it. A view of the sea: “stunning”. A fashionable dress: “stunning”. A film star looking average on a red carpet somewhere: “stunning”. I think that use of the […]

It’s not all about the size.

The shore of Lake Thun at Gwatt is a great place to photograph the sunrise and the sunset.

Searching for viewpoints, poring over maps, dodging power lines, and coming home with classic landscape images.

Better lighting conditions can make a good landscape photograph great. Being in the right place at the right time is a skill which you can learn.

Views from home across the lake to the Niederhorn on a winter Sunday.

Before the proper snow arrived at the start of this year’s winter season, we visited Zermatt and visited the famous, much-photographed view of the Matterhorn from Riffelsee.

The mountain restaurant and top cable car station at First, above Grindelwald, affords amazing views down to the valley and to the huge wall of rock opposite: including the famous Eiger North Wall.

Jaw-dropping aerial views of Switzerland

A twenty minute film in association with Swiss Tourism, showing tremendous aerial views from around Switzerland.

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…and where better to realize a childhood dream than in the Swiss Bernese Oberland? U.K. band Rudimental chose to film a large amount of the video for their recent release “Free” (featuring Emili Sandé) in the Alps of the Jungfrau Region and not only is the song lovely, but the accompanying video sequences are sublime.

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I really like Austria (at least, the little I’ve seen of it just recently). We were on the border between Bavaria and Tyrol for our anniversary and it was the first time I’d done more than pass through a narrow sliver of the country on the south-eastern tip of Lake Constance to photograph a wedding. […]

Probably at number one on the list of “places I’d love to visit but probably never will” is the Mittellegi Hut, perched on the ridge of the same name near the summit of the Eiger. It’s famous amongst climbers as it’s along the approach route from the Eismeer station of the Jungfrau Railway, en route for […]