Day 1: This morning Dad went off to get the air conditioning fixed on the car but didn't manage to so we headed of to Stein am Rhine it was just over the border to Switzerland. As soon as we arrived we headed up to the Rhine falls they are the biggest in Europe they were 150 m wide. Dad and I went on a boat out to a rock in the middle it was amazing how powerful the water was it made the whole rock shake it was a little scary. Later we wandered into town there were lots of old houses with paintings on them.
Day 2: This morning early we climbed up a hill to the Castel sadly it was closed so we walked back down packed up the car and headed off we drove all the way to Interlaken on the way we went on some amazing roads including a 5.2 km tunnel there were also great views Interlaken was a bit like Queenstown with the lake and the Mountains. We carried on up through a valley to a little town called Lauterbrunnen It had sheer cliffs on both sides of the valley it was a bit cloudy so we couldn't see all the mountains.
Day 3: I got up and had a look outside there was clear blue sky and I could see the Mountains. We got a gondola almost strait up a cliff to a place called Murren it was at the top of one of the cliffs we saw some guys going base jumping they were crazy. We hiked up a steep winding track in the direction of the Shilthorn it is a big mountain with a revolving restaurant on the top. We kept going up and up until we came to snow but that didn't stop us. We hiked on through the icy snow on all the way to the Schilthorn hut that is a bit over half way up. We had lunch there, it was freezing cold so we huddled together to keep warm. We were starting to wonder if we should still go up. Once the sun came out we clambered up a very steep slope where we rested for a while. Dad and I decided to carry on up a mountain called Bietenhorn while Vanessa and Mum waited for us further down. The first bit we had to carefully inch our way across the snow then we went around a slippery rock face and across some more snow until we came to the proper track. It was much easier going because we were now on the sunny ridge. We walked up for a long time there were views from both sides but it was still cloudy. After going up a really steep bit We finally made it to the summit which was 2736 metres that's the highest mountain I've ever climbed. We signed the book at the top and took some photos. Finally it started to clear and we had great views of the Eiger, Munch and the Jungfrau. It felt awesome to be at the top and I was ready to head back down. We walked down the other ridge to see if there was a way down. Luckily there was and we climbed down a little shoot till we came to a big scree slope which was really slippery and we kept falling over. We made it back down to Mum and Vanessa, I slid down the snow!! We walked all the way back down to Murren, caught the train and gondola home. Man were my legs sore.
Day 4: Today we went to see the Eiger up close. Mum, Vanessa and I took the train to Kleine schietge and Dad drove to Grindelwald We both walked up the track and met each other. Vanessa, Mum and I got caught in bad weather but we still had a great walk. we met up with Dad and had lunch by now the rain had cleared up and there were some great views of the north face of the eiger. We walked back to Grindelwald we wandered around a bit and then went back to camp.
Day 5: This morning we packed up camp and headed to Zermatt I was navigating but when we got to the pass through the mountains was closed a man told us that there was another way through on a train so we went all the way back to Interlaken and then we drove our car strait onto a trai and we headed off thrugh a tunnel strait through the mountains after that we drove up to a place called Tasch we camped the night there because the only way to Zermatt is by train or horse and carrage or little electric cars.
Day 6: Today we wenr up to Zermatt to see the Matterhorn from Zermatt we took a underground train to higher up we then walked around for a while we saw heaps of shamy and marmits which are littlle animals that look a bit like beavers there was also amazing views of the mountains and we had a great day.