Below is a list of alpine refuges and lodging option enroute the Tour des Combins. Feel free to use this list if going solo and having an...

A plant for people that enjoy pointy, sharp, jagged, angular specimens. It is dramatic. It is eye catching. It is tall and structural....

A common alpine specimen often found on well draining soils that also frequents the coasts especially in the UK. Dazzling blue flowers...

As best as I can recall, I have only seen this plant at the botanical gardens in the mountain village of Bourg saint Pierre, Valais...

High above Bourg St Pierre in Switzerland on the paths of the Tour St Bernard below the Col Saint Bernard are large clusters of this...