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

“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”.

In October 2024, she clambered up to the Wandflue peak, at an altitude of 2,133 metres (6,998ft), 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.

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