Explore the Swiss Alps with a Cicerone guidebook

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Maps
• Further Reading

Note Guidebooks for walkers, trekkers, climbers and ski tourers are listed in the Introduction.

General tourist guides

Blue Guide to Switzerland by Ian Robertson (A&C Black, 1989)
Green Guide to Switzerland (Michelin Travel Publications, 2000)
Switzerland by Damien Simonis et al (Lonely Planet, 4th edition 2003)
The Rough Guide to Switzerland by Matthew Teller (Rough Guides, 4th edition 2010)

Instruction

Alpine Climbing (Crowood Press, 1995) by John Barry
Mountaineering: from Hill Walking to Alpine Climbing by Alan Blackshaw (Penguin, 1970)
On Snow and Rock by Gaston Rébuffet (Kaye & Ward, 1971)

Mountains and mountaineering

Adventures of an Alpine Guide by Christian Klucker (John Murray, 1932)
Alpine Points of View by Kev Reynolds (Cicerone, 2004)
Alps 4000 by Martin Moran (David & Charles, 1994)
Collins Guide to Mountains and Mountaineering by John Cleare (Collins, 1979)
Early Travellers in the Alps by Gavin de Beer (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1930)
Fifty Years of Alpinism by Riccardo Cassin (Diadem, 1981)
Hold the Heights: the Foundations of Mountaineering by Walt Unsworth (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993)
How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring (John Murray, 2000)
I Chose to Climb by Chris Bonington (Victor Gollancz, 1966)
In Monte Viso’s Horizon by Will McLewin (Ernest Press, 1992)
Killing Dragons: the Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming (Granta Books, 2000)
Matterhorn Centenary by Arnold Lunn (Allen & Unwin, 1965)
Men and the Matterhorn by Gaston Rébuffet (Kaye & Ward, 1973)
Men, Myths and Mountains by Ronald W Clark (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)
Mountaineering in the Alps by Claire Elaine Engel (Allen & Unwin, 1971)
On High Hills by Geoffrey Winthrop Young (Methuen, 1927)
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860–69 by Edward Whymper (John Murray, 1871, and numerous editions since)
Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rébuffet (Kaye & Ward, 1968)
Summits and Secrets by Kurt Diemburger (Allen & Unwin, 1971)
The Alpine Journal (Alpine Club, 1864 to present date)
The Alps by R L G Irving (Batsford, 1939)
The Alps by Ronald W Clark (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
The Alps from End to End by Martin Conway (Constable, 1905)
The Alps in 1864 by A W Moore (Blackwell, 1939)
The Early Alpine Guides by Ronald W Clark (Phoenix, 1949)
The Eiger by Dougal Haston (Cassell, 1974)
The High Mountains of the Alps by Helmut Dumler and Willi P Burkhardt (Diadem, 1993)
The Mountains of Europe by Kev Reynolds (Oxford Illustrated Press, 1990)
The Mountains of Switzerland by Herbert Maeder (Allen & Unwin, 1968)
The Playground of Europe by Leslie Stephen (Longmans, 1871/Blackwell, 1936)
The Swiss and their Mountains by Arnold Lunn (Allen & Unwin, 1963)
The Victorian Mountaineers by Ronald W Clark (Batsford, 1953)
The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer (Hart-Davis, 1959)
Unjustifiable Risk? by Simon Thompson (Cicerone, 2010)
Wanderings Among the High Alps by Alfred Wills (Blackwell, 1939)
When the Alps Cast their Spell by Trevor Braham (The In Pinn, 2004)
World Atlas of Mountaineering by Wilfrid Noyce and Ian McMorrin (Thomas Nelson, 1969)

Mountain walking

Trekking in the Alps by Kev Reynolds (Cicerone, 2011)
Walking in the Alps by J Hubert Walker (Oliver & Boyd, 1951)
Walking in the Alps by Kev Reynolds (Cicerone, 2nd edition 2005)