Switzerland – Above Zermatt

Switzerland – Above Zermatt

In this post I’m sharing photos from a hut-to-hut hike in the Alps in the mountains around Zermatt, a small resort village high on the Swiss-Italian border, in the Swiss canton of Valais. The high mountains around Zermatt are dominated by the iconic isolated peak 

The Alps – Alta Via 1

The Alps – Alta Via 1

Hiking high above tree line and along ridges in majestic mountains is one of the real pleasures in my life. Last summer I hiked the Alta Via 1 (AV1), a classic hut-to-hut hiking route through the Dolomites, a group of mountain ranges in northeastern Italy, 

Costa Rica – Volcán Poás

Costa Rica – Volcán Poás

I traveled to Costa Rica for a short trip earlier this month. Early one morning at the beginning of the trip I drove to Parque Nacional Volcán Poás, in central Costa Rica – not far from where I stayed in Alajuela for a couple of 

Himalayas – Above Nako

Himalayas – Above Nako

In my previous two posts I shared photographs from the small Himalayan village of Nako on the border of India and Tibet – one of our stops in a motorcycle tour through the Spiti Valley, high in the Himalayas in the Indian state of Himachal