Book description
The second edition of a popular guidebook to trekking the Tour of the
Jungfrau (Schynige Platte to Wilderswil) hut-to-hut in the Swiss Alps
-already one of the classic walks in Europe - including new alternative
routes for some stages. The trek takes the walker in a horseshoe loop
through the Bernese Oberland's most spectacular mountain scenery, in the
shadow of such iconic peaks as Wetterhorn, Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. In
a journey of 9 to 10 days the Tour visits pastures, ridges, summits and
passes, skirts exquisite mountain lakes and gazes on waterfalls, gorges
and glaciers. Accommodation is both plentiful and atmospheric, and the
route has lots of bad-weather alternatives. Despite the nearby presence
of popular resorts like Grindelwald, Wengen, Lauterbrunnen and Mürren,
the Tour of the Jungfrau Region explores some surprisingly remote
landscapes, including part of a World Natural Heritage Site. Kev
Reynolds devised the Tour of the Jungfrau Region. He is a freelance
writer, photojournalist and lecturer and was the first honorary member
of the British Association of International Mountain Leaders (BAIML).
His first title for Cicerone appeared in 1978, and is still in print.
The present book is his twentieth on the subject of the Alps.
