A boulder, dislodged from the Alpine cliff above, had embedded itself in the asphalt in front of our taxi. It could have killed our entire family, but I saw it as a sign that we had come to the right place.
The road to Val d’Anniviers is notoriously challenging, a dizzying staircase of hairpin turns beneath steel nets designed to catch falling rocks like the one that had landed in front of us. Being Swiss-built, it is an impressive work of engineering, and fatalities are rare. Nevertheless, it is the kind of road that limits traffic to the highly motivated. No one is just passing through.
