It was a first for us: we got up and took off WITHOUT any breakfast! It was really exciting to see blue sky and the best views yet. We walked the 5 minutes up to the cable car station and took a 15 minute ride up two cable cars through the clouds to the summit of the Schilthorn (2970m).
We went outside and marveled at the view in all directions. It was a chilly 4°C with some wind.
There is a rotating restaurant on top of the Schilthorn called the Piz Gloria. This is the place where the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was filmed. We went inside where we had a reservation for the special “James Bond Brunch”, courtesy of our hotel. As we ate, the restaurant rotated almost all the way around. While it was luxurious and lovely, we were both a little disappointed with the emphasis everywhere on 007, rather than the mountains themselves. It has changed a lot since Nathan was here in 2012.
It required conversations with four different employees to get directions to start the walk down, but once we were on the route and through the construction zone, it was great.
There were some flowers, even at the top, but there were more and more as we went forward in the season by descending. There were snow patches, some hand rails, a river to cross, but mostly pretty easy walking on the 4200′ descent.
We wound our way down to town and had a snack at the hotel, then a short nap before a yummy pizza dinner. All during our time here, we looked and looked for Swiss Ibex but only saw one stuffed in the Piz Gloria. But here are a couple of wildlife shots from today…
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It looks chilly up on top! What lovely walk-down photos with gorgeous flowers and generally awesome mountain scenes. too bad about the excessive 007 emphasis, but YOU made your own special emphasis.
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Love the spectacular pictures and video of the bells. Great flowers and wildlife despite lack of ibex. So happy you are having such a nice time.💜💛
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