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The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland... [read more]
The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland... [read more] Blog: Climbing Weissmies (4.017m) and visiting Zermatt
Date: August 15th 2011
(deutsch siehe unten) Finally, the weather forecast was quite good - after all the rainy weekends in july it was time for our first attempt to climb one of the high mountains (over 4.000m) in Switzerland this year. As we are currently quite busy with work, we decided to start early in the morning on Saturday. We got up at 4 am, went by car to Saas Grund and got into the first cablecar at 7.30 am ... read more
Date: August 15th 2011
(deutsch siehe unten) Finally, the weather forecast was quite good - after all the rainy weekends in july it was time for our first attempt to climb one of the high mountains (over 4.000m) in Switzerland this year. As we are currently quite busy with work, we decided to start early in the morning on Saturday. We got up at 4 am, went by car to Saas Grund and got into the first cablecar at 7.30 am ... read more
