At Sunnegga you can climb onto a four-seater chairlift to a little cluster of farmhouses that make up the village of Findeln.

It might be hard to wrap your head around, but until as recently as 1954 rye and barley were grown on these slopes, at a height of 2,100 metres.

Findeln wasn’t occupied year-round, but was rather a Maiensäss, and at the start of the summer villagers would embark on a punishing cattle drive to this spot.