For the past four years, I have spent a few days each summer in Pontresina, a charming and incredibly scenic mountain resort that lies at 6,000 feet on the side of a mountain in heart of the eastern ...

Situated in the impossibly picturesque Engadine region, Pontresina is full of natural beauty, wildlife and opportunities to get away from it all – if you want to, that is, or you can take advantage of ...

When American tourists picture the Swiss Alps, they tend to picture luxe ski towns like Klosters, Verbier, and Zermatt. But just a few miles off the beaten path is an idyllic mountain village where ...

Harriet O’Brien is an award-winning author, freelance travel writer and contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller magazine. Her work has taken her from Amsterdam to Amritsar, Belgium to Burma and of ...

In Switzerland, one town saw global warming coming and built a dam to stop it. The Swiss resort of Pontresina, near the Italian border, is 5,900 feet above sea level, which is on the high end — even ...

GAYLORD — There’s a large rock with a plaque on the corner of Otsego Avenue and Main Street in Gaylord, and it’s a gift flown in from Pontresina, Switzerland, to the residents of Gaylord recognizing ...