Rita Christen – Switzerland’s pioneering mountain guide

Rita Christen is exceptional. The first female president of the Swiss Mountain Guide Association is one of only 40 or so female guides in Switzerland.

As a young girl, Christen would spend every spare moment during the ski season at the Urnäsch village ski lift in canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes, northeastern Switzerland. Her father was the director of the Säntisbahn cable car, and she would join the mountain rescue team on their last run of the day... More info