I used this book (along with a few others) to help plan a 2 week trip to Switzerland in June 09 with my family. The book focuses on hiking from: Zermatt, Saas-Fee, Lauterbrunnen, Kandersteg, Samedan, Arosa, Engelberg, and Meiringen in Switzerland (half of the book is devoted to Austrian hikes). For each hiking base, there are several walks of varying ability (easy to challenging), along with other options in case of rain. This book should NOT be used as a trail guide--the descriptions are more general of the whole hike, and do not have enough specifics to guide a hike. The maps are useful only to show where a hike is relative to the base city and should not be relied upon. This book needs a serious editing--lots of typo's and some elevation readings that are not to be trusted. I don't think the photos in this book add much and are so generally labeled, that one cannot be sure they represent the hike or area on the page. Based on this book's recommendations, we went to Kandersteg and enjoyed the village and its walks very much.