Meetings at summit
Géraldine Fasnacht Virtuoso sportswoman in the Alpine sky
This winter, I crossed paths with a queen. A legendary bird in the heart of Verbier. I met Géraldine Fasnacht. Champion freeride snowboarder, base-jumper and wingsuit pilot, microlight and glacier plane pilot. A virtuoso sportswoman in the skies above the Alps. An incredible career, an exceptional woman. An exchange at the ... Read more
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Alpine locations
A cable car to the Matterhorn
In an article Previous we mentioned the project of a railway to reach the summit of the Matterhorn and the opposition it raised between 1906 and 1907. Despite the outcry in Switzerland and in Europe, this was not the last attempt of this type, as one might have expected, on the contrary: at the beginning of the 1950s, a cable car was planned on the Italian side to reach the summit of the famous summit. This is the subject of this article, which will deal mainly with the oppositions raised by the project.
History of the Alps
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) is undoubtedly one of the best known and most important Swiss artists of the early 20th century. An artist with a varied and prolific production who painted in different styles, a painter of all kinds, the mountain is never far from his brush.
Lifestyle
Mountain photos for a unique interior design
It is in the international city of Geneva that Julien and his partner receive us for the hanging of 6 prints of art. Pictures of summits and Alpine mountains that they acquired during one of my exhibitions in Switzerland. This modern and design wall decoration brings this extra warm soul that the couple was looking for for the interior decoration of their new house.
Alpine locations
The railway of the Jungfrau
In an article Previous we mentioned the project of a railway and funicular in the Matterhorn in 1907. Faced with the scandal provoked in Switzerland and in England, the concession was never granted. A no less audacious project had been imagined - and started - a few years earlier: the Jungfrau railroad.
Lifestyle
Dents du Midi - Canton of Vaud
A frame large format mountain photo is a good alternative to bring some depth and perspective to your interior design... especially when the landscape outside is a bit monotonous. David tells us how he found solace in the view he had of Dents du Midi from his former home.
History of the Alps, Mountain photographer
Vittorio Sella
Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was one of the leading photographers and mountaineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the nephew of Quintino Sella, one of the founding members of the Italian Alpine Club (1863). He was as famous for his photography as for his climbing. Sella himself said he had decided to combine photography and mountaineering from 1880 onwards, and was only interested in the high regions of the Alps, as yet little explored and unphotographed - even though, as we have seen elsewhere articles, several pioneers had already taken photographs in the Alps. Sella took advantage of the ...
