
Mountain Towns
Mürren Before the Lifts Open, in Late Autumn
On a car-free shelf at 1,650 m, an Oberland village waits out the six-week gap between summer hikers and the first skiers. A report from the Hotel Eiger and the train down to Lauterbrunnen.
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Mountain Towns
On a car-free shelf at 1,650 m, an Oberland village waits out the six-week gap between summer hikers and the first skiers. A report from the Hotel Eiger and the train down to Lauterbrunnen.

Rescues
Toni Kurz died fifteen metres from his rescuers on the morning of July 22, 1936. The recovery of his body, and of the three men who had died above him, took six weeks and changed what mountain rescue meant in the Bernese Oberland.