Higher Love Swiss ‘Mountain Tinder’ sparks high-altitude attraction

CATHY and Patrick relish describing how they found each other: through a message left on a Swiss mountaintop.

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“It was just a beautiful way to meet,” said Cathy Rotzetter during a recent hike in the Pre-Alps of the western Swiss canton of Fribourg.

Sick of online dating sites, the 58-year-old said she was thrilled to discover an analogue alternative, with a Swiss twist: “Mountain Tinder”.

Last October, she clambered up to the Wandflue peak, at an altitude of 2 133m, and jotted down her information in the red notebook she found there.

Rotzetter recalled the message as she sat in a mountain pasture, her arm laced around Patrick, with the Wandflue towering behind them.

“Tl wrote that I liked relaxed hikes, and also to have a drink afterwards,” she told AFP with a laugh.

Patrick, who is also 58 and who declined to give his surname, found the message a week later, and was charmed.

Mountain Tinder is the brainchild of Thibaud Monney, a 29-year-old avid hiker who said the whole thing started in 2023 as “a joke”.