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Mürren, Switzerland
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Things to do in Mürren

Mürren sits on a terrace at about 1,650 metres on the western wall of the Lauterbrunnen valley, directly opposite the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. It has been car-free since the first railway reached it in 1891 and is reached only by cableway, either the Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp cable car and the panorama railway along the shelf, or the cable car from Stechelberg. The village is the valley station for the Schilthorn and the birthplace of modern downhill ski racing, where Arnold Lunn set the first slalom in 1922 and founded the Kandahar club. Its scale is deliberately small, a few hundred permanent residents on two lanes with the whole Jungfrau massif across the gap.

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Things to do

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  1. North Face Trail

    North Face Trail

    Trail · 3 hr

    The three great north walls held in frame across a whole afternoon of easy walking.

  2. Allmendhubel

    Cableway · 1.5 hr

    Five minutes of funicular buys the Jungfrau panorama plus the trailhead for everything above Mürren.

  3. Birg and the Thrill Walk

    Viewpoint · 30 min

    A cliff-face catwalk with nothing under the mesh but eight hundred metres of the Lauterbrunnen valley.

  4. Schilthorn

    Cableway · 2.5 hr

    Two hundred visible peaks from a rotating floor, on the only summit in the Alps a film company helped build.

  5. Via Ferrata Mürren to Gimmelwald

    Trail · 3 hr

    A cable bridge across the Lauterbrunnen wall with three hundred metres of clear air underneath.

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The Bernese Oberland, Floor to Summit
Lauterbrunnen

The Bernese Oberland, Floor to Summit

No road has ever reached Mürren or Wengen. Everything above the valley floor moves by rail and cable, and in 2026 the whole system finished rebuilding itself.
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