Climbing in Lauterbrunnen

Lauterbrunnen is a Swiss valley and municipality in the canton of Bern that appears in Swissway to Heaven, a film surveying major Swiss climbing areas. The movie interleaves ascents on big alpine and rock faces with conversations that place modern hard climbing in the context of earlier generations’ routes and techniques.

Climbing footage in the film covers multi‑pitch trad and sport on long faces and alpine walls, with climbs in the roughly 8a+ territory noted by the filmmakers. Contributors include Cédric Lachat, Nina Caprez, Mélissa Le Névé and Tobias Suter, while figures such as Beat Kammerlander and Claude Remy provide historical perspective. In the segments connected to Lauterbrunnen you get the sense of sustained route climbing and the logistical demands of long pitches rather than short, single‑move efforts.

Viewed through this film, Lauterbrunnen becomes part of a network of Swiss climbing — a place where endurance, pitch management, and a dialogue with past generations’ first ascents shape how modern climbers approach big faces.