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Some of the backpack routes are pretty busy and huts fill up in July and August. If you can try and go mid-June or September.

If you haven’t done a trek before consider basing yourself in a town and then doing some day hikes to get your fitness up and then a shorter hut trip. It’s a big change for the body to hike every day. Invariably people get worn down in the first few days with foot, knee, body aches that mean you want time off and/or can’t go on. This is especially true the first trek.

If you’re set on Switzerland, Zermatt is incredible as a destination to be based out of. Anywhere in the Bernese Oberland also great. There are tons of hikes in both these areas and lots of huts nearby. Chamonix in France is another great base, but it’s a bigger town. You can use lifts to get rid of most of the pain of 1,000m elevation gains.

Hope this helps.