Aug
17
Milestone Adventures When there's a milestone for our family to celebrate, our first thought is always, "Let's go on a Ryder-Walker trek!" It started in 2002 when Ray surprised me by signing up for the Tour du Mont Blanc for my 50th birthday. After ten days with a curly haired...
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Jul
20
Mountain guide by day, writer by night. This is Branford Walker, the next generation of mountain guides for Ryder-Walker Alpine Adventures. Following in his father's footsteps, Branford is sharing his well earned knowledge of the Alps with our guests. Branford just finished guiding our Tour du Mont Blanc, a ten...
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Jul
13
Question: We're taking a Ryder-Walker hiking tour in Switzerland, but we're flying to another European destination (France) following our hike. We'll have a few bags that we won't need during our hiking tour. Can we just leave them at the Zurich airport? Answer: Yes! The Swiss have you covered. You'll...
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Jun
26
Daniel Sundqvist sent these photos from a private Dolomites hike that he's guiding in Italy. One of our guests wanted to celebrate her 50th birthday in style, so she, her husband, and two friends asked us to put together a private hiking and climbing tour in the Italian Dolomites that...
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Jun
22
Back in March we unveiled a set of photos with the tag line "Where are we going next?" Now it's official. We're going to Patagonia in 2016! More specifically, we developed a nine-day hiking itinerary that explores the Lake District of Argentina. At A Glance You'll visit the most delightful...
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Jun
15
Check out these photos from our Sicily hiking tour which ran May 30th to June 7th. Do you see the volcanic eruptions at the bottom of each photo montage? Those aren't stock tourism photos. They're real photos from the trail. Our group hiked to an active volcano during their trip....
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Jun
03
This is where Swiss cheese gets its bubbles, but there's a debate brewing on HOW those bubbles form. According a recent report, it's the bucket, or rather, what falls into the bucket when farmers milk Old Bessie, that determines the holes. Scientists have long held that certain bacteria in young...
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Mar
17
Th' Anam Tho' Dhia! but there it is — The dawn on the hills of Ireland! God's angels lifting the night's black veil, From the fair, sweet face of my sireland! O, Ireland, isn't grand you look— Like a bride in her rich adornin'! With all the pent-up love of...
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Mar
06
Image: Ivoha/shutterstock Have you subscribed to our e-newsletter? Click here to subscribe, and get all the latest offers and news. From our latest edition: Time is running out for an ancient kingdom in Nepal, and we'd like you to see it before it changes forever. Situated on the mountainous, windswept border...
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Feb
03
The tourist office in Corippo bills their tiny village as the “smallest municipality in Switzerland,” and they’re probably right. The population of the town was just 12 people in 2013, and things felt pretty small when I hiked through on Day 1 of our new self-guided Ticino Swiss Lake District...
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Jan
06
We’re happy to announce that luggage transfers are now included on the self-guided Tour du Mont Blanc, our 10-day circumnavigation of Western Europe’s highest peak. Register for the TMB, and you’ll enjoy luggage access on every night of the hiking tour except one. Even better, the transfers are included with...
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Aug
25
Guided tours rock! RW guides Daniel Sundqvist and Babsi Glanznig (behind the camera), took our Alpino Wunderbar guests on a Via Ferrata outside of Cortina, Italy. Via Ferrata literally means “iron road” in Italian, and many Via Ferratas have their roots in World War I when they were installed to...
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