About Alpavero

Alpavero was founded in 2019 by a small team of Swiss hiking enthusiasts who were frustrated by the gap between the information available online and the reality they encountered on the trails. Too many route descriptions were outdated, oversimplified, or written without genuine knowledge of alpine conditions. We set out to build something more honest and more useful — a platform where every piece of trail information is held to the same rigorous standard we would apply before trusting it with our own safety in the mountains. Over the past five years we have built a database of more than 800 routes across all 26 Swiss cantons, verified through a combination of professional alpine guide review, community reporting, and regular on-trail audits by our own team. Our difficulty assessments use a methodology developed with input from the Swiss Alpine Club to ensure consistency across different terrain types and regional nomenclatures. We believe that good trail information is a matter of safety, not just convenience, and that philosophy shapes every decision we make about how data is collected, verified, and presented. Alpavero is not affiliated with any tourism promotion body, which means our assessments are independent and free from commercial pressure to make routes sound more appealing than they are. We are proudly based in Bern, and our team hikes the routes we write about — there is no other way to do this work properly. Our long-term goal is to become the most trusted source of alpine route information in Europe, expanding carefully into neighbouring countries while maintaining the depth of coverage that makes our Swiss content genuinely valuable.