I Climbed the Swiss Alps with Ex Army Sniper And (You?) - Outdoor Sol Vlog
The video follows Sol Brah and a group of twelve friends on a weekend Alpine expedition in the Swiss Alps. Starting with a pre‑flight departure from Zurich, the crew stays overnight in a historic 1860s hotel once visited by Friedrich Nietzsche, then hikes to the Fübi Hütte (a Swiss Alpine Club hut) and continues to a glacier summit. Throughout the trek they showcase the Alpine landscape—crystal‑clear springs, wild herbs, blueberries, waterfalls, and grazing cows—while interweaving health and fitness commentary (raw‑egg nutrition, gait analysis, external foot rotation, ice‑bath recovery, grounding, forest‑bathing). The vlog also includes cultural observations about Swiss watches, cheese, chocolate, and a passionate plea for incandescent street lighting to protect circadian rhythms. Group bonding moments (raw‑egg ritual, primal screams, shared meals, jokes) are highlighted, and several participants give testimonials about the experience’s impact on friendship, personal growth, and future networking. The narrative blends adventure travel, practical wellness tips, philosophical musings, and a celebration of high‑frequency, like‑minded companions.
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Good morning, it is 4 AM and I'm headed to the airport to catch a flight to Zurich, Switzerland. That's all I have to say. I'll see you over there. So I want you to notice the difference in vibe. Incandescent streetlights, yellow, golden, beautiful. Wow, everyone's having having a good time at night, and then it shifts. Now we got the LED white lights. Bad. Cringe. Jarring. Not as good. You know, it's very obvious to me. So we all need to start to become advocates for incandescent-only street lighting for our nighttime. If we're going to use lights at night and disrupt everyone's circadian rhythm and light pollution, all the rest of it. Let's use these nice golden incandescent lights instead. 777, baby! Nice. Jan, what were you saying about what Switzerland is famous for?
Switzerland is famous for a couple of things. Banking, crypto, finance, and watches.
Watches, yes.
And the way that the Swiss people entice people to come to Switzerland is they make incredible cheese and chocolate.
Yes.
To lure them in to buy the watch.
The watches with their money and banks. Fairytale houses. What do we have here? Solar power on top, 100% solar power on bottoms. Jeez, nice spring.
Every single water source that flows out into a fountain or spring is drinkable unless it specifically says not drinking water.
Some last-minute camping supplies. Where are the wool sleeping bags? All poly unfortunately. The reason we're in Zurich is we're going on the expedition, Alpine expedition with my friend Janosch who you saw. We've got 12 guys came out who we're meeting in a few hours. You can drive out into the Alpine mountains and then hike overnight. Now we're staying at a hotel tonight after a few hours of hiking, and then tomorrow it's an even bigger hike up this goat track through the mountains. You can have exquisite valley views. I'm gonna be talking a lot about health and nature and living and doing a fun, a few fun activities like ice bath in the cold glacial river and things like that with this group of guys. This is the first expedition that we've done through Sol Brah. Excited to meet all the guys. And, uh, we're gonna have a great weekend staying at the top of the mountain tomorrow night so we can catch the sunrise over the top of the mountain glacier. I think my pack's the biggest. That's embarrassing. Butter dates, most anabolic snack you can have, I think, with a Swiss knife. Here you go, that's you. Just pulled over because this view I had to show everyone. Just look, that is the bluest fresh water I've ever seen.
Base camp.
So in order to provide the nutrients for our large hike ahead, we have to shlonk a raw egg, as I'm sure many of you done many a time before. Wait, have you, Basil? Great. Never. Everyone else? 3, 2, 1. You can tell who the veterans are. On the side of the trail we have wild raspberries. Have to try. Mm, yes! The air is thick with that moisture and wow, feels great to breathe in. So this purple flower here, or pink, is mountain wild oregano. So in the Swiss mountains, as you get higher, the less grass there is and the more flowers there become. Flowers and herbs. And that's one of the reasons that Swiss cheese is so delicious, is because the cows up here are feeding on herbs and flowers. If I hear correctly, There are some Swiss cows with bells jingle-jangling over there, and that is the hotel where we're staying tonight. So here is the highest village. These houses, people's houses. Sind viele Leute oben? Auf der Hüfe? Ich weiss es nicht. Bit of thunder, bit of lightning. A nice capstone to the first part of the walk.
There we are, the hotel room.
This hotel is from 18— that's right, 1860s, so nearly 200 years old. Friedrich Nietzsche used to live here and write, or visited here. So real ancient historic building, wood, lots of good energy here. Um, I'm pretty knackered, so we're going to hit the hay and I'll see you in the morning. Grand Rising. You ready for a day? Morning in the valley. Crew is packing up. Sun is out. Conditions are great. First, we must refuel. Best water in the world.
Some timing on the sign. So we're going today, we're going to the Fübi Hütte, which is an SAC, Swiss Alpine Club hut. Swiss Alpine Club has, I think, around 300-400 huts around the Alps in Switzerland. We have the timing. Says 3 hours 20 minutes. Like I said, that's Swiss hiking timing. We're not Swiss hikers. It's going to take about 4 hours 20, probably.
Yeah, boy. Um, but here you'll see wild blueberries. Are these GMO? No glyph said out here. Hello, Mr. Marmot, sunning himself there. And we are off the road onto the track. Waterfalls. All around. Hunter-gatherers. Yeah, checking the electrical field of the ground. So I'm on rocks right now. I think there's a small charge. You can see I'm part of the circuit. It's what we got, 0.3. And technically, if I go into here— there we go, volts rising up because I am connected to the Earth. Charge here. Go off again. Yep, right down. Proof of the Earth's electrical field.
Wow.
Press it up. Try to get above your head with your arm locked.
Press.
Bigger rock. Keep in mind, I'm not like the apex good example of this stuff because I'm trying to fix the imbalances that I've kind of created from lifting weights and walking around and stuff as well. In the general walk, who can tell me which looks better?
First one, think about that.
Second one. So who noticed the difference there? So your foot is turning outwards and we've got an external rotation like that. What this does, you'll see most people will walk like this, and I was the same before I kind of really thought about it. External rotation is going to put— it's going to turn off your glutes and hips. Your glutes and hips, we want to take most of the load for our general walking, even weights and things as well. When it's externally rotated, all of the pressure is on the knee, which really shouldn't be taking the load. And when athletes are running like that, like that, boom, that's when ACL goes. If you have an internal rotation on the step, there's really no amount of pressure that you can put on the body, the knee going out like that and the weight on the outside of your foot, your ACL is never going to blow like that. When do you think the last time you screamed at the top of your lungs was? Years, right? So I believe that there's something about the primal scream that maybe we would only do in battle or moments of great victory or frustration even. And we never do that in today's world, right? It's mostly like you're sitting in office, don't be too loud, all of that shit. So I figured in this environment to just go for it and have a bit of a yell. You got more in that.
Who else? Who else? That was a good smoke coming out of his mouth.
Let's go, Baz! All the frustration, let it out. I'm good.
Hello!
Decided to land on me to add to the nutrition of a sandwich, to do a swig of olive oil. Always travel with that. I think we're about halfway from where we started. Getting pretty steep. The chatter has dropped because people are focusing on breathing. But, uh, can't really put into words what this is like. There we are. This is geoengineering. Create our rock pool. We've managed to divert the river. Yeah.
Into our little pool.
Spa bath. What are we going to do, a cold plunge?
Woo!
Let's go, Baz!
Oh, chill, chill. Yeah, straight in, easy. Got Tristan taking a nap.
There we go. Let's go, Sam! England is colder, so you're good. I'm stoked! It was cold but replenishing. The mountain gave me its energy. Yeah, that's why we're here. Thank you, mountain. Got the water straight from the mountain stream. We are ready to now bring our adventures to the top.
Can you hear the jingling?
All these sheep have bells on them so they don't get lost. Clouds coming up. A Swiss beer. In the heavens, really. So I hiked with a kilo of cheese for this moment specifically. Sleeping quarters, cozy shared dormitory. A little bit of fog. Yes, rice.
It's a local rice recipe from this Canton. It's a leek rice, and this is a Nordic Prost!
Just washed up. We've got a curfew, 9:30. Getting up early in the morning. Let's go see these mountains, climb up a glacier, or across a glacier. So that's me. See you in the morning.
Successful morning.
Went out into the glacier, onto the ice. Very interesting feeling. What we have left now, the rest of the day, is to climb all the way back down, back to Zurich today. And the hardest part is over, so just enjoying the valley and the nature for the rest of the day.
I promise you this, after all the great powers fall, Switzerland will remain.
It's far less of a cardiovascular workout, but the fine motor control of this bad boy, the vastus medialis and hamstrings and glutes to just like decelerate as you're coming down, it's a whole different ball game in terms of the intensity of the hike. But it's good to mix it up, and it's definitely easier than the way up. My friends had it tweet recently, and it was just the word forest, dash between it, for rest. And I think it really describes the rest that your body gets when you're in a forest. Forest bathing, Japanese practice of just chilling in the forest, bathing in that green light energy, restorative energy, is super important, especially if you're in city and grinding all the time to get out into the forest for rest. Lunch spot. Pear potion wine, and then what is it, cinnamon ice cream?
Undertaken.
And so the mountains of Switzerland gifted us with their power. They asked of us a physical offering of the ascent and graced us with beauty and the views of a lifetime in return. Together we braved the elements, roaming through field, valley, and forest, over rivers, ice, and stone. We challenged ourselves, we learned and grew, forming friendships that can only be made through shared struggle. The first Sol Expedition was a weekend I will never ever forget. An absolute success in my books. Let's listen to what some of the other guys had to say about it.
Hi, my name is Tristan. I've partaken in this trip with all the guys and Sol Brah. It's been amazing. We've seen waterfalls to sheep. We've stayed in a house that Nietzsche stayed in when he was younger. He went to go party or just hang out in the house. We even made an ice bath out of like, uh, we used some rocks and made a dam wall and then we just bathed in the ice water. That was amazing. Overall, the trip has been great, especially because it's with a lot of different dudes that have the same values as you. Yeah, so it's been amazing.
The way that we began it was kind of just the tone for the rest of the trip. We all had the raw eggs in the parking lot, you know, just kind of bonded over that right away. And I think that was a really special way to start the whole thing off. I could say like this group definitely got along so well and like everyone was able to bond and like just enjoy each other's energy. I think it was such a great compilation of guys and couldn't have gone any better. The experiences that we were able to have thanks to guys like Jan and Sol and the rest of the guys in the crew, like it blew away anything I would have expected. You know, you go up into the Alps, you expect beautiful scenery, but you get a lot more reward when you make genuine connections and challenge yourself.
So many cool guys here. Birds of a feather flock together type of thing. So being in nature with high-frequency people, like-minded people, is so powerful and healing. And yeah, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Way beyond what I what I was expecting. It wasn't just a hike through the Alps, it was a mastermind on everything from health, fitness, wealth, finance, crypto. Like, the people that came out here were all just incredible human beings and honestly the kind of people that I've been searching for for my entire life. And I know that like relationships have been built here that are going to serve me for, for years to come and are gonna, you know, shape the course of my life, to be honest.
