Davos, St. Moritz, Zermatt. The three most famous Swiss tourist resorts are connected by many links, but could hardly be more different.

Davos was dedicated to lung patients, St. Moritz and Sils Maria became intellectual hubs and Zermatt developed into an alpine hotspot. Andreas Lesti undertakes a magical journey to these regions and explains in passing what Thomas Mann has to do with Sherlock Holmes and why Theodor Adorno died on the Matterhorn.

»He always writes with journalistic distance but empathetic closeness. That the mountains and the mountain people are close to his heart can be felt in the final chapter (…).«
Welt am Sonntag on DAS IST DOCH DER GIPFEL

»Andreas Lesti is the literary mountain guide. Here he takes us on an entertaining mountain tour, heights of the lucid, depths of illness and delusion.[…] Smart, funny, wide awake and definitely worth the ticket!«
Der Freitag

»Deep draft in the high mountains? Yes. With humor.«
nordbayern.de

»A wonderful book for art lovers.«
Zur Zeit

»A literary mountain reading pleasure«
ÖAV Edelweiß