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A short walk from Schynige Platte reveals an ever-changing panorama. The Jungfrau invariably dominates (Route 9)

The Jungfraujoch railway is one of the engineering marvels of Switzerland and is accessible from either Grindelwald, Wengen or Lauterbrunnen. But since this volume is primarily intended for walkers, the railway lies outside the scope of this book. Wengen, of course, is not. Set on a natural shelf high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley, it has an exquisite outlook – especially to the Jungfrau, one of the loveliest mountains to be seen anywhere. Among the more popular outings from this resort is the walk to the Wengernalp, from whose safe and gentle pastures one may gaze on avalanches that pour from the Jungfrau almost every day in summer.

Lauterbrunnen lies in its own deeply-cut trench, an amazing place of huge walls and feathery cascades. At the head of its valley, in a more open level of grassland, is the little hamlet of Stechelberg which makes a superb base for a walking holiday, for it has numerous possibilities for exploratory outings to mountain huts, to ‘lost’ tarns, seemingly barren screes and hidden hillside terraces.