fron-alp

Updated: February 1, 2026

Opposite, green with steep grass, and set with châlet villages, the Fron-Alp rises in one solemn glow of pastoral light and peace; and above, against the clouds of twilight, ghostly on the gray precipice, stand, myriad by myriad, the shadowy armies of the Unterwalden pine.

John Ruskin - Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters'