LENK, Switzerland (AP) — Lights go out at 10 p.m. on the dot, and the following morning breakfast is served from sunrise until 7 a.m. The red-and-white checkered blankets must be folded according to ...

After four rolling miles along Lac des Dix, a reservoir in southwest Switzerland with the tallest gravity dam in the world, we began the abrupt climb towards Col de Reidmatten. The trail soon lost its ...

This year, a highlight of my European summer was the day I spent hiking in the Berner Oberland region of the Swiss Alps. I was with a wonderful group of traveling friends, all eager for a ramble in ...

Hilary and I wandered a grassy meadow at 7,500 feet near a dried-up mountain lake called Hundssee, searching for a spot to lay out our sleeping bags and bivy sacks. The wind had picked up in the ...

LENK, Switzerland — Lights go out at 10 p.m. on the dot, and the following morning breakfast is served from sunrise until 7 a.m. The red-and-white checkered blankets must be folded according to Swiss ...