I am currently working for a Swiss National research insitute. We are looking at vegetation succession after a forest fire. Currently there are 3 of us doing field work in the mountains near Leuk in the Valais. Here are some picture of what we do all day.

This is where we are living, a really small Valaisan mountain village.

A little after-work outing to a mountain pass at about 2300m, near Leukerbad

Just some impressions