On Sunday 25th January we made a longish journey.  From Bergamo we began by travelling west, south of Lake Como, and then north up the west side of Lake Maggiore. Here's one of our views looking from the lakeside towards the Alps.

As the weather was nice we decided to press on before it changed and we crossed the Simplon pass into Switzerland. Very high (2000 metres), very snowy and very cold.

We stopped briefly at the top.

We descended through snowy pine forests down into the deep valley of the river Rhone near to the town of Brig. We stopped for the night a little further west at a small car park in the snow free valley bottom..