We Hiked from the Most Beautiful Place in Europe, and it Took 3 Hours

Last summer, my sister and I traveled around Switzerland.

It’s our favorite country of all time and we can’t help it to talk about it as well. Every year we pack our stuff and travel together.

This year we set our plans on a couple of great locations such as Zürich, Bern, Oeschinenlake, and of course, The Eiger Trail in the Bernese Oberland region.

We wanted to have specific locations instead of just going to as many places as possible and hiking from the top of the Eiger was just something we had to do.

Eiger Trail, August 2023

Doesn’t that look like a photo from a movie?

It was unreal to witness such beauty, solely created by Mother Nature over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.

It all started as a vague idea of my sister, she wanted to go Hike on the Eiger Trail and I didn’t have a clue. I knew it was beautiful in that area but, until we got there I had no expectations.

To get up to the Eigergletscher you go to Grindelwald Terminal train station — from there you can get up to the mountain with a cable car.

An incredible view.

On the ground, it was around 28/29 degrees Celcius. In the sun it was incredibly hot.

But up there, cold and fresh air flowed through your face.

We had never been on such high terrain. 2,320 m (7,610 ft), that was.

Before we started our hike down to Alpiglen we took a look around us, ate our croissants, and took some pictures of this beautiful blue lake that appeared in the background called Fallboden Lake.

Fallbodensee, August 2023

It was so blue.

I imagined what it felt like swimming on these heights.

But you can’t swim in that lake and we weren’t dressed for that either so we took off and followed the path alongside the Eiger North Wall down to the train station of Alpiglen.

That was more than 800 meters (0,49 miles) down over the course of 6 Kilometers (3,72 miles).

It was a tough hike but it delivered some amazing views and experiences.

The further we got down, the better the views we got.

Halfway through the hike, we stumbled upon a very cute group of cows that were just chilling and enjoying their lives.

They were so cute.

But then some Dutch couple with a dog came to ruin the peace they had. The dog started barking and the cows, frightened, started to move to another position.

That’s the moment we continued our hike.

Further down we realized there wasn’t a proper path to walk on everywhere. Random rocks and stones aren’t for everyone to walk on.

You can’t be scared of heights either.

There were definitely a couple of moments where we almost slipped away but got back on our feet.

It can be scary but if you watch out everything will be fine.

We also stumbled upon this waterfall 👇

The Waterfall we’ve been waiting for

When we were around 20 minutes away from the end of our hike my water bottle was empty. Nothing left.

I was thirsty and luckily I saw some sketchy pipe at the end of a waterfall where we could tap some water.

It was delicious.

The best water ever, August 2023

It was cold, fresh, and the best water I had ever tasted in my life. Straight from the mountains.

Then we finally reached the end of the hike and could hop on the train back to Grindelwald.

Of course, I had to take a picture with the signs.

You didn’t complete the hike if you didn’t pose with the signs.

So here’s a photo.

So when we got back at the hotel all our muscles were in pain. We aren’t really used to hiking in the mountains.

But it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever done travel-related.