It interests me that Dickens lived in Lausanne from June-November 1846, loved the country, and wrote the first chunk of Dombey and Sons there. But the mountains were horrible things, so described. "In another letter to Forster, Dickens’s description of the monastery revealed his terror and reverence of the Alps. “A great hollow on top of a range of dreadful mountains, and in the midst, a black lake, with phantom clouds perpetually stalking over it. The air so fine, it is difficult to breathe ... the cold so exquisitely thin and sharp that it is not to be described.”"
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Date: 2013-12-04 08:51 pm (UTC)(New York Times travel article, paywalled: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/travel/following-dickens-through-switzerland.html)