Central Switzerland · every morning
The same mountains. Never the same sunrise.
Peak a View films the sunrise over the Rigi, the Mythen and the Rossberg, day after day. This is the landscape behind the videos.
27 October 2026 · Photo: Peak a View
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The view in 3D
Which mountain is that?
Turn, tilt and zoom the landscape. Eleven places show what there is to see.
Eleven places
What you are looking at.
What makes each place worth a closer look. Pick one to fly there.
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01 Rigi 1,797 m Where mountain tourism learned to climb
Pilgrims came first, then tourists. The first guesthouse on the summit opened in 1816, William Turner painted the mountain at sunrise in 1842, and in 1871 Europe’s first mountain rack railway started running from Vitznau. Today two cog railways and seven cable cars run on the Rigi, and Rigi Bahnen counted 910,000 guests in 2023.
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02 Gnipen 1,567 m The mountain that fell on Goldau
The scar where the mountain broke away is still plain to see. On 2 September 1806, after persistent rain, 36 to 40 million cubic metres of rock slid into the valley, buried Goldau and killed 457 people. The federal landscape inventory calls it the most significant historical rockslide in Switzerland. The Natur- und Tierpark Goldau stands among the boulders.
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03 Lake Lauerz The lake the rockslide reshaped
The rockslide of 1806 took about a seventh of this lake and set off a flood wave that destroyed large parts of Lauerz. At most 14 metres deep, it is one of Switzerland’s shallowest lakes and has the country’s most extensive belt of water lilies. A ferry crosses to the island of Schwanau, with its castle ruin and inn.
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04 Wildspitz 1,580 m The roof of canton Zug
At 1,580 metres this is the highest point of canton Zug. The Rossberg ridge is made of pebble rock and marl, 25 to 28 million years old and tilted towards the valley, which helped the rockslide of 1806 on its way. Fossil footprints of birds, turtles and rhinoceroses were found on its rock layers in 1954, and more than 30 orchid species have been recorded here.
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05 Mythen 1,898 m Two limestone teeth above Schwyz
Two limestone peaks stand alone above Schwyz, the canton that gave Switzerland its name. Geologists call them a klippe: what is left of a sheet of rock after erosion removed everything around it. A path has led to the top of the Grosser Mythen since 1864, and more than 40,000 people climb it each year.
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06 Morgarten A battle, and what was made of it
On 15 November 1315 the men of Schwyz ambushed a Habsburg army at the upper end of Lake Ägeri and put it to flight. Little else about the battle is certain, and historians say what was later made of it matters more than the event itself. A monument has stood by the lake since 1908, and a commemoration is held every 15 November.
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07 Hohle Gasse William Tell’s sunken lane
In the legend, William Tell shoots the bailiff Gessler in this sunken lane near Küssnacht. Tell is a legend; the lane is real. By the 1930s it had become a motor road. Swiss schoolchildren raised the money for a bypass, the lane was rebuilt to look old, and it has been held in trust for them ever since.
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08 Lake Lucerne When the road was water
For centuries this lake was the road. The terrain made roads along the shore almost impossible, so goods and travellers bound for the Gotthard crossed by boat. Steamships came in 1837, and five paddle steamers built between 1901 and 1928 still sail. The lake covers 114 square kilometres and is up to 214 metres deep.
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09 Lake Zug The town that slid into the lake
Zug was built on an unstable shore, and twice part of the town sank into the lake: in 1435, and on 5 July 1887, when 35 houses went under and eleven people died. The lake is up to 197 metres deep. Canton Zug calls it the Swiss lake most burdened with nutrients.
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10 Pilatus 2,128 m The forbidden mountain
For a long time, climbing this mountain was forbidden: legend put the restless ghost of Pontius Pilate in a small lake up here. Since 1889 a cogwheel railway has climbed from Alpnachstad. With a gradient of up to 48 percent it is, says its operator, the steepest in the world.
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11 Glärnisch 2,904 m Vreneli’s garden, on the far horizon
The snowfield on the far summit is Vrenelisgärtli, Vreneli’s little garden. In the legend, a headstrong girl wanted to plant a garden up there and was buried by the snow. In the summer of 2003 the snowfield melted away completely for the first time in its recent history. The glacier on the massif has lost close to half its area since 1973.
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Sea of fog
Why the valley disappears.
In the cool season, cold air settles in the lowlands under lighter, warmer air. Below that lid it is cold and grey; above it, clear. In calm weather the top of the fog sinks to 600 to 800 metres. When the north-east wind blows, it mostly lies above 1,000. The summit of the Rigi is at 1,797 metres.
Source: MeteoSwiss, fog in autumn (German) · Photo: 13 October 2026
From the camera
No two mornings alike.
Photos: Peak a View
How the view is filmed
One camera. Every sunrise.
A panorama camera with a zoom lens records the sunrise each morning. Software finds the moments worth a closer look, such as alpenglow on a summit or a sea of fog, and cuts the videos automatically. Max looks at each one and approves it before it goes out.
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Daily video
The whole sunrise as a time-lapse.
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Short
About 30 seconds, vertical, made for the phone.
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Weekly film
The best moments of the week, out on Monday evening.