I love tennis, I use to play all the time, I was pretty good at it, and then over time we morphed into playing golf, and then into sailing, we did lots of sailing mostly offshore and away from land for extended periods... there's nothing like fun activities outdoors, one of the most memorable events was when we trekked to the summit plateau of the highest mountain in the Swiss Alps, the great Mount Jungfrau, it stands taller than Mount Eiger which was just next to Jungfrau... we did Jungfrau a few years ago, that was a life changer... it seems that nothing can compare with standing at the top of the world, looking down and seeing nothing but blue sky below you and clouds a few miles below you... I've got lots of pics taken on that trek...
There's Jungfrau in the background...
On our way up you can see to the left of center a team below us about 3000 feet from us, they're coming up and following our trek trail...
Our descent down Jungfrau was also very beautiful, we passed through a small village called Lautenbrunnen high in the alpine valley, there were cows in the meadow, and each cow had a giant bell around their necks... you could hear the bells in the distance... in the middle of the town there was a very large waterfall of snow melt coming down the mountain wall from the higher snow caps... again, the name of the town was Lautenbrunnen... laut is German for loud and brunnen is German for fountain, so the name of the town was "loud fountain" or Lautenbrunnen because of the beautiful and loud waterfall there...
Below is a photo of beautiful Lautenbrunnen...
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