The Guardian in the Swiss Mountains

A number of times during his life, particularly in the years immediately following the Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi retired to Switzerland to regain health, energy and self-confidence. He lived a very physically rigorous life there.

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Rúḥíyyih Khánum recalled that, often long before sunrise, he "would take a train to the foot of some mountain or pass and begin his excursion, walking often ten to sixteen hours, usually alone," and that he "also climbed some of the higher mountains, roped to a guide." Years later, when he wished Switzerland to have its own Temple site near Bern, he wanted it to have a clear view of "the Bernese Alps, where he had spent so many months of his life walking and climbing."

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