Take Switzerland's oldest mountain railway to the summit of Mount Rigi and you're in for a ride through a spectacular winter wonderland.

Mark Twain's praise rings true on a trek up Mount Rigi, near Lucerne, Switzerland.

This content was published on May 30, 2016 A group of asylum seekers has been temporarily housed on one of Switzerland’s most iconic mountains, the Rigi.

At Switzerland's Mt. Rigi, dinner is served during a slow-motion gondola ascent; dessert on the return. PHOTO COURTESY RIGI BAHNEN AG PHOTO COURTESY RIGI BAHNEN AG, PHOTO COURTESY RIGI BAHNEN AG ...

It was to be a sunrise celebration on the first spring day of the new Millennium. But in Switzerland at least, the sun failed to shine on the so-called "World Day of Planetary Consciousness". A ...

Noisy throngs of Chinese tourists disturb those who visit Mount Rigi in the Alps in search of peace and relaxation, reports the Swiss newspaper Blick.

Rigi Kaltbad proved a fine place to ogle feats of Swiss design. Twain stood there and gaped at Europe’s first mountain cog rail, completed on Mount Rigi in 1871.