Alpine Pass Route - 14 Stages
The Alpine Pass Route extends east-west from the Liechtenstein border to Lake Geneva. We elected a west-east crossing to suit flight times into Geneva and out of Zurich and plan to walk for 14 days over 12 mountain passes between Gstaad and Sargans. Accommodation is mostly in the valleys where the major villages are located and in January 2015, we booked all 14 nights. on booking.com.
Alpine Pass Route - 14 Stages
The walk is almost all above 2000 m including such famous names as Grosse and Kleine Scheidegg, Sefinenfurke, Hohturli, Bunderchrinde, Hahnenmoospass and Trutlisberg,. They are flanked to the south by an almost unbroken succession of magnificent rock and ice peaks: the Titlis, the Wetterhorn, the classic trio of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau, the Blumlisalp, the Wildstrubel and the Wildhorn.
In addition, the walk between Kanderstag and Altdorf was voted by American Backpacker Magazine as the World's best hike, ahead of 5 classic routes including the Annapurna Circuit Nepal, Torres del Paine Chile and the John Muir Trail Sierra Nevada. The criteria which tipped the scale - Gastronomy!! Now, I am not a fan of Swiss food except for their cheese, but you can only eat so much fondue (basically stale bread dipped in hot cheese). But we usually buy our food from a local supermarket, either Migros, or Coop, and make our own picnic lunches and pick a main meal at night that's NOT fondue. So for us, it was not the gastronomy on the walk, but the spectacular alpine scenery.