Adelboden village and alpine peaks, Switzerland, 1947

About this postcard

The view looks across the Adelboden valley toward a ring of snow-capped Bernese Alps peaks under a clear sky, with the village and its scattered buildings set among forested slopes in the foreground. The view takes in a series of high summits, including the Wildstrubel, Steghorn, and Rotstock. Adelboden sits at 1,356 meters in the Bernese Oberland, a mountain village whose steep pastures and surrounding peaks made it a summer and winter resort by the mid-20th century.