Happy birthday, Switzerland! ⁦Switzerland⁩

Starting the first part of the great Alps trekking, from Lake Geneva to Nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Tr… By boat from Lausanne to St Gingolph and Novel

Next leg: Novel, Col de Bise to Chapelle d Abondance, beautiful and 1300m up ;) ⁦Switzerland⁩

Next episode: to Chesery hut and Lac Vert ⁦Switzerland⁩

Day 4: same place, different time! (#Champery to #Samoens) ⁦Switzerland⁩

Day 5: beautiful hike from #Samoens to near #Chamonix, with views of the #Mont-Blanc

Day 6: good morning, #MontBlanc, good evening #Aiguille_du_Midi (yes, there is a cable car going from #Chamonix to 3842m, start of the amazing #Vallée_Blanche glacier ski descent)

Day 7: good morning #Aiguille_du_Midi (#Les_Houches) and trekking to #Contamines (After 2h and 600m up, surprised to meet a tramway ;)

Day 8: final trek of the week: #Contamines to #Col_de_la_Croix_du_Bonhomme where the path continues to the Mediterranean (and me going back to Contamines... a 10h day;)

"That's all, folks!", this was Season 1. If you enjoyed some of these episodes, stay tuned for Season 2, coming Summer 2025 (all the way to the Mediterranean). If you need a guide book grande-traversee-alpes.com/produit/la-gra…

Back to work ...

If you already miss the #Olympics, I'd like to offer some sound advice: watch Monty Python’s hilarious "Philosopher’s football"

Mixed weather on #Lavaux ⁦Switzerland⁩

I was a bit confused early this morning... What was the sun doing at the western horizon? Full moonset!

Things seem back in order: full moon rise over #Lavaux ⁦Switzerland⁩

Enjoy the week-end ⁦Cloud Appreciation Society⁩ ⁦Switzerland⁩

Please Nako Nakatsuka and Daryl Yee, take over my X account for a few weeks! I love how you manage your social media presence and discovered how good you are on stage in Villars in front of 200+ EPFL professors. 🔥🔥

At EPFL we have students competing in the Olympics... and Prof. Jacques Fellay running the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc HOKA UTMB® Mont-Blanc (170km, 10'000m elevation). Good luck for the finish! UTMB Live - Hoka UTMB® Mont-Blanc 2024 - Jacques FELLAY

What a day … I’m so honored & humbled to win the Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2024 from Swiss National Science Foundation & the #LatsisFoundation. snf.ch/en/ALDm23FH0wE… I’m so thankful to be doing research in Switzerland 🇨🇭 at EPFL. Sincere thanks to all my colleagues who have generously reached

Dear Mackenzie Mackenzie Mathis, PhD Mathis, congratulations on your Latsis Prize! If I were a young researcher today, I’d do my best to join your lab: this is one of the most promising work out there! Btw, I might have a bit of free time next year, do you offer internship programs🙂?