THE BERNESE OBERLAND
by Kev Reynolds
JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,
OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL
About the Author
Kev Reynolds is a freelance travel writer and lecturer whose first title for Cicerone (Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees) appeared in 1978, and has been in print ever since. He has produced numerous books on the Alps, a series of trekkers’ guides to Nepal and, nearer to home, several guides to walking in Southern England. For many years he devised and led walking and trekking holidays throughout Europe and the Himalaya, and in 2013 Cicerone published a collection of short stories and anecdotes harvested from his fifty years among mountains, entitled A Walk in the Clouds. The first honorary member of the British Association of International Mountain Leaders (BAIML), and a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, the Alpine Club and Austrian Alpine Club, Kev’s passion for the countryside in general, and mountains in particular, remains undiminished after a lifetime’s activity. When not trekking in one of the world’s great mountain ranges, he lives among what he calls ‘the Kentish Alps’, and during the winter months regularly travels throughout the UK to share his enthusiasm with others through his lectures. Check him out on www.kevreynolds.co.uk.
Other Cicerone guides by the author
Abode of the Gods
100 Hut Walks in the Alps
A Walk in the Clouds
Central Switzerland
Chamonix to Zermatt
Écrins National Park
The Cotswold Way
The North Downs Way
The Pyrenees
The South Downs Way
The Swiss Alpine Pass Route
Tour of Mont Blanc
Tour of the Jungfrau Region
Tour of the Oisans: The GR54
Tour of the Vanoise
Trekking in the Alps
Trekking in the Himalaya
Trekking in the Silvretta & Rätikon Alps
Walking in Austria
Walking in Kent
Walking in Sussex
Walking in the Alps
Walking in the Valais – Switzerland
Walking in Ticino – Switzerland
Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees
Walks in the Engadine – Switzerland
Walks in the South Downs National Park
© Kev Reynolds 2015
Fourth edition 2015
ISBN: 978 1 85284 796 8
Reprinted 2018 (with updates)
(Supersedes The Bernese Alps – Switzerland)
Third edition 2005
Second edition 1997
First edition 1992
Printed in China on behalf of Latitude Press Ltd.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.
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Front cover: The distant Wetterhorn, Eiger and Mönch dominate views from a high point above Mürren
CONTENTS
Public Transport in the Bernese Oberland
Route 1 Engstlenalp – Schwarzental
Route 2 Engstlenalp – Hinderarni – Reuti – Meiringen
Route 3 Engstlenalp – Tannenalp – Melchsee-Frutt