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An Oberland Châlet

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
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During a summer spent in a remote Swiss châlet, a small family chronicles adapting to simple mountain life, domestic routines, and encounters with local villagers and guides. The narrative blends intimate, often humorous household episodes with lively travel sketches of nearby glaciers, passes, lakes, and peaks, and with practical observations about lodgings, food, and alpine customs. Interspersed are descriptive walking routes, portraits of village characters, and reflections on landscape, light, and weather, producing a personal, episodic travelogue that balances outdoor adventure, family life, and cultural detail.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Grindelwald Lower Glacier Frontispiece
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Grindelwald Valley and Wetterhorn 30
Mönch and Jungfrau from the Männlichen 66
Grimsel Hospice 84
The Matterhorn from the outskirts of Zermatt 124
Mont Blanc—Glacier des Bossons 176
Bach Lake (Faulhorn Route) 202
Brienz Village and Lake 220
Lucerne, Old Covered Bridge and Water Tower 224
The Banks of the Reuss, Saint Gotthard Pass 230
The Glacier from below the Schwarzegg Hut looking towards the Strahlegg and Schreckhorn 266
Lauterbrunnen 274

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