The Alps

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately 750 mi (1,210 km) across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia.

One by One
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
The Escape
The Wall
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Le otto montagne
Starlight and Storm: The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps (Modern Library Exploration)
Ein ganzes Leben
The Magic Mountain
Christmas in the Snow
Premier de cordée
The Alps From End To End
The Sojourn
The Mountains of My Life by Walter BonattiThe White Spider by Heinrich HarrerEdge of the Map by Johanna GartonKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
Mountaineering
36 books — 30 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Mountains
758 books — 116 voters

Heidi by Johanna SpyriA Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin GierBanner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanBarry by Lynn HallDogs in the Dead of Night by Mary Pope Osborne
Switzerland in Juvenile Fiction
179 books — 10 voters
Heidi by Johanna SpyriStiller by Max FrischHomo Faber by Max FrischDie Leute von Seldwyla, Erster Band by Gottfried KellerDie Leute von Seldwyla, Zweiter Band by Gottfried Keller
Switzerland
134 books — 10 voters


Thomas Bernhard
After my parents were dead, I found in a box and in two chests of drawers nothing but hundreds of bright red Alpine caps, I said, nothing but bright red Alpine stockings. Every one of them knitted by my mother. My parents could have gone into the High Alps with these bright red caps and bright red stockings for thousands of years. I burnt every one of those bright red caps and bright red stockings, I said. I put on one of my mother's hundreds of bright red Alpine caps and in this costume burnt a ...more
Thomas Bernhard, Goethe schtirbt: Erzählungen

Jill Alexander Essbaum
Yes, you do hate Switzerland. And," doctor Messerli paused for effect, "you love it. You love it and you hate it. What you don't feel is apathy. You're not indifferent. You're ambivalent." Anna had thought about this before, when nights came during which she could do nothing but wander Dietlikon's sleeping streets or hike the hill behind her house to sit upon the bench where most often she went to weep. She'd considered her ambivalence many, many times, and in the end, she's diagnosed herself wi ...more
Jill Alexander Essbaum

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