Our TINY HOME IN THE SWISS ALPS (full tour)

This one of the man ways I've felt in a long time. Having chopped some wood for dinner.

Woo. One of them hit me.

Did it really?

Yeah.

After spending a few days in the city of Zurich celebrating National Day, floating down the river with locals and eating way too much cheese, it was finally time to leave the city and head into the Swiss Alps. So we woke up bright and early to head to the train station. Today we are traveling south to the town of St. Moritz, where we will be hiking into the mountains to be one of the first people to stay in an incredible tiny home built by on.

It is so quiet on the Swiss train.

Okay.

We have just arrived in the town of Chur and we have three minutes to catch our next train. Go, go, go, go. I don't know how we always do this to ourselves.

For 122 wonderful kilometers from T to Tirano, the line takes us over 196 bridges and through 55 tunnels.

This is the most beautiful train journey you've ever been on.

We're just starting our two hour hike up to the tiny home. We have everything that we're going to need for the next 24 hours on our backs.

Feel strong.

So there are actually no roads that lead to this tiny home. And the only way to get there is by hiking straight up a mountain. And as you can tell from all the sweat, we are well into our hike. The views are absolutely incredible.

So we are gaining 700 meters in elevation on this hike. It's about five and a half kilometers. We're pretty much going straight up, which is great. I need this exercise because for the last two nights we've eaten a pot of cheese for dinner.

We've made it about halfway up the trail and we are just now getting our first glimpse of the hut.

We are almost there and it looks so cool perched up there on top of the hill.

This is the inside insane. The whole front of it is a window.

We have made it.

Yes.

We didn't make it here without some effort.

I've never sweat like this before.

Wow. Totally worth it. So before we go inside, we're actually going up to a spring to collect all the water that we need for the night in this bag. It has a little filter down in the bottom of it, but apparently it's so clean that we don't even need the filter.

Here we go.

That's crazy. So this spring that we're drinking out of right here is actually the start of the in river which eventually turns into the Danube and then ultimately ends up in the black sea. The water that I don't collect in this bag is gonna end up in the black sea. And this is. This is the start of it.

Okay.

We're about to go in our tiny home for the first time.

I'm so excited.

I love the smell.

Yeah. So welcome. It's gonna be your home for tonight. Come to your home. Look, this whole place got here via helicopter, including the wine. Bye. Bye. That was our new friend Micah. She basically brought us up here, showed us how to use everything, and now we're on our own in our tiny home. Are you excited?

Could not be more excited. This place is incredible.

Where do we start?

Okay, we're all settled in, so we're gonna give you a quick, proper tour of the whole place. I can already tell you I'm a fan of the tiny home, and I want one. So right now we're in the living room, dining room, slash hangout area. Whatever you want to do in your house can happen right here. This is the kitchen area. Here's our stove. It doubles as a heater for the house, so Nate will have to chop some wood and put it in here.

Whoo. Will light it up. It'll cook our dinner, and most importantly, make our coffee in the morning. Some kitchen supplies here. This is the ladder up to the master bedroom. This wall is basically all storage. So we have some firewood, fire supplies, cutlery. I don't even think there's anything up there. It's heaps of space. And then this whole wall is also storage. So we have our pots and pans, our food and coffee dishes. Few random things, but the coolest thing in here. USB chargers from solar power. So there are solar panels on the roof that charge these plugs and the lights. And then there's some more stuff in here, like cleaning stuff. And now we're in the shower, kitchen area. Sink. This is the water we got straight from the stream earlier. It'll help us clean our dishes. You can see take a shower in here. Prob's not showering tonight because I think this water's kind of cold. And our drinking water and our cooking water. Bathrooms this way. Probably the best view from a toilet. We are keeping the bathroom locked so random hikers don't come use our potty.

All right, here's the toilet tour. It is a special compost toilet. You do your business, and then they have this special dirt, and you just sprinkle it on top. Pretty fancy. There's also an automatic light that comes on when you walk in here when it's dark outside. I can't wait to use it. I'm gonna leave the door open.

This is the view that you have when you're sitting on the toilet.

Not too bad. She actually told us during the day there might be some hikers going by, so we may not want to leave the door wide open. I think I'm gonna risk it though. And last but not least, we have what is without a doubt the best room in the house. I mean, really, could you get a better view from a bedroom? The sun rises, like right outside of this window, so don't even have to get out of bed. We just roll over.

Sunrise sounds like my kind of sunrise.

This is so incredible. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to do this. I wish we'd stay for a week sitting up here reading books, not having our computers.

We left all of our electronics besides the camera obviously at the bottom of the mountain. And I can't remember the last time we didn't go to bed on our computers.

It's great. Cause we actually can't work.

Like, I am so excited and I'm so grateful for this one night, even though we're already complaining that it's not mourned.

So the house itself is great, but what makes it really incredible is just where it's built. We are literally on top of a mountain. They had to fly in all of the supplies and it just feels like something that shouldn't exist.

Alright, the sun just set behind the mountain and it is dinner time. We are having pasta with handmade noodles from Italy because we're really close to the border. Pesto. Yummy. Olive oil. And.

We went to the store and bought a few more things to hike in. Swiss cheese and Swiss salami, some bread from the bakery, this traditional Swiss nut tart, and the wine and nuts that they left for us. Plus there's a candle. I'm so excited. Ready to whip up some dinner. As long as Nate can get the.

Fire started, I think it's going pretty well.

That's a fire.

She told us that because we're at almost 8,000ft, there's not as much oxygen in the air and so it could be harder to start the fire. But closing see if it does. Boom.

Pasta time.

And of course, we stocked up on some Swiss chocolate.

All right, we are celebrating that we made fire and we're gonna eat tonight. It's funny how simple things can feel so fancy. We had cheese fondue in a square in Zurich last night and paid a lot of money for it. And somehow this feels just as fancy. Like this is just as enjoyable to me.

Good work, Kara.

It was team effort.

This has been the perfect night. I really don't know if it could have been any better. Sunset was beautiful. It was supposed to rain this afternoon and it didn't. I never want this night to end.

Good night.

Sam.

Not a bad view to drink coffee too.

Good morning.

Thank you.

Goodbye. Mountain hut.

I'm so sad to leave this beautiful place, but it's time to hike back down. The weather could not be any better.

Two hours later, we are almost back down to the road. But in order to get there, we have to hike through this tiny mountain village. It's called Heidel Dorf. And fun fact, apparently this is the town where the movie Heidi was based. But apparently there's another town nearby that thinks that they're the Heidi town. So they're kind of in a disagreement about that.

Hey, guys.

This is the. It's the master bedroom. Gosh.

As long as you don't fall.

Go back to the ladder. Go back to the ladder. Not sure what we would do if we stayed more than one night, but I'm already sad that we have to leave tomorrow. Yeah, I can think of things.

You know, like go on a swim, go on a hike. Read a book.

I thought we tried to keep things family friendly on this channel.

We do.

Apparently the wood that goes in the oven needs to be pretty small. There we go. Don't embarrass yourself.

Woo. You need some protective goggles.

I close my eyes.

Nest.