You'll be enticed by the film's poster images of a silver car bedecked in giant spikes, but Mad Max this is not. Instead it's a creepy tale of the town of Paris (it was really filmed in Sofala), where the locals don't take too kindly to visitors. Traveller Arthur Waldo (Terry...
) to the start of the via, you make your way up a steep trail, part of it with ladder-like rungs in the cliff, winding up and up until finally you are on the top of a tall hill next to the Eiger – I borrowed someone’s binoculars to squint at the professional climbers ascending...
A ranger had recommended that we get micro-spikes for our hiking boots which proved to be very helpful in preventing slipping, especially on the downhill. I also used hiking poles. The further we descended, the warmer it got – about a third of the way down, all the snow had melted. ...