Climbs in the Alps: Glaubenbielenpass - Glaubenbielenpass: A serious challenge
Almrausch: On a narrow little road you climb over the alpine meadows just before the lonely pass summit.
It is one of the insider tips among the Swiss passes: the small crossing between the Sarner Aa valley in the east and the Entlebuch, the valley of the Kleine Emme, in the west.
Even the Tour de Suisse has discovered the Glaubenbielen Pass (1,611 metres) for the first time this year. The low-traffic road leads through a picture-book Swiss landscape: cows chew their cud on lush green mountain pastures against the backdrop of the partly snow-covered main Alpine ridge. Magnificent farmhouses with low-pitched roofs are scattered throughout the valley. With an even gradient of more than eight per cent, the east ramp from Giswil is a serious challenge. On the much longer north-west ramp, over which the Tour de Suisse peloton also climbed during the final stage on 17 June, the backdrop of the Brienzer Rothorn is somewhat more alpine.
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