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I am also indebted to Ernst Sondheimer, good friend and one-time editor of the Alpine Journal, for his encouragement and valuable advice, to Roland Hiss whose knowledge of so many alpine regions of Switzerland is almost encyclopaedic, and with whom I’ve had some memorable mountain days, and to the many friends who have shared numerous Swiss trails and/or summits: Brian and Aileen Evans, Nigel Fry, Richard Moon, Alan Payne, Derek Roberts, John Robertson, Trevor Smith, Alan and Morna Whitlock, Janette Whittle, and Jonathan and Lesley Williams. My daughters, Claudia and Ilsa, cut their mountain teeth in the Swiss Alps, as did my grandsons, and my hope is that they will come to enjoy as many rewarding mountain days there as I have. I’m also fortunate in having the friendship of numerous folk in Switzerland, and their hospitality and company in the mountains has been greatly valued; among them Myrta and Jörg Dössegger, Hedy and the late Marcel Fux, Marc Jones and Diane Sifis, Lisbeth Spielmann, Silvia Linder and Alexandre and Monique Luczy.