Blog posts about mountain at Permanent Tourist

Hiking in the wild, remote and dramatic landscape of the north-west of Scotland last autumn.

Dramatic, ice-clad peaks in the Swiss Bernese Oberland.

Oh, did I forget to mention? Jo and I walked up the biggest mountain in England in 2017.

Filming and photographing at the mountain-top restaurant made famous by James Bond.

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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.

Hiking our first Scottish “Munro”: Ben Wyvis in the district of Ross & Cromarty.

Sunsets in the mountains are different from those over flatter landscapes.

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.

Finding a magnificent view of a scene I know well, by going up a little road and turning a corner.

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 […]

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

The Niesen casts a clearly triangular shadow when the sun is low in the sky.

One of the more spectacular mountain lakes in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland is at Oeschinensee, in a hanging valley easily reached by cable car from the town of Kandersteg. If you’re feeling lazy, then the walk to the lakeside restaurant is a fairly easy one. If you’re more adventurous, then there are a network of paths leading […]

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.

Terry’s videos make me want to turn off my computer and head for the British hills immediately: whether to a well-known place like the Lake District or to places which will be new to me.

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The triangular Niesen towers over the Lower Simmen Valley and the towns of Spiez and Faulensee, on the shores of Lake Thun in Switzerland. The glowing clouds behind the mountains in the distance aren’t illuminated by towns, but by lightning storms above (respectively) Lenk and Gruyères.

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 […]