John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, hiked in 1911 through the Alps to the Aletsch Glacier, the largest such ice flow in the Alps. He wrote later: “My heart still lingers in these high-altitude rocky deserts, on moraines and scree [loose rock] slopes, in the great silence … Continue reading Tolkien’s Switzerland – and much more – is in jeopardy