"These Amazones of the Piolet, Inflamed by Effort, Has Always Aroused in Me an Aesthetic Horror": a Hike in the Footsteps of the Swiss Pioneers of Mountaineering

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Between Sonloup and Les Paccots, a guide and a political scientist dedusted the history of the Swiss Alpine Women's Club, born from the exclusion of the latter by the Swiss Alpine Club, in 1917. We followed the traces of these crown amazonesIn this canicular morning of late May, train then funicular drop us at Sonloup, above Montreux. More than 700 meters of elevation swallowed effortlessly, from the plain, even before the departure of this hike…