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Switzerland is one of the most stunning places on earth. But it's also massive in what it offers: alpine peaks, lakes, villages tucked into valleys, viewpoints that only locals talk about.
The problem? All of that lives scattered across a thousand websites, guidebooks, and Instagram posts. Nobody's pulled it together properly.
So we did.
Baptiste Mabillard, founder of Shelduck Production.
It started with a view from above.
At the heart of SwissDiscover are stunning drone videos from across Switzerland, and behind them is Baptiste Mabillard, a 25 year old from Valais who's been flying drones over Switzerland for the past ten years. He started as a teenager and turned it into Shelduck Production, the company tourism offices, TV networks, and heritage organizations now line up for, first across Switzerland, now well beyond.
Baptiste recently published La Suisse depuis les airs, a book of 200 aerial photographs of his Switzerland from the sky. Familiar landscapes seen from a new angle, shaped by the tech he's mastered and his eye for composition. The same images are available as framed posters in our shop, so you can put a piece of that view on your wall.
Most of the videos pinned across our map come from his work. So when you click a marker and a clip starts playing, you're seeing Switzerland the way a bird sees it, through the eyes of someone who's spent a decade learning how to frame it.
That's the soul of this project. The map is the body, but the imagery is the heart.
And the one who put it on the map.
Behind the platform itself is Nicolas Montani, also from Valais and Baptiste's childhood friend. The two of them grew up in the same valley, watching the same landscapes — and Nicolas is the engineer who turned the footage and the pins into the site you're using right now.
He built the whole thing end to end — the interactive map, the trip planner, the shop, the CMS companies use to add their own pins, and the infrastructure holding it all together. Product, design, backend, partnerships — that's all him.
He and Baptiste had been talking about a map of Switzerland for years. The footage kept growing, the idea kept circling, and at some point it just felt like the right moment to stop talking about it and ship it.
That's the partnership behind SwissDiscover — Baptiste's eye in the sky, Nicolas's craft on the ground, both of them mapping the country they grew up in.
Nicolas Montani, technical cofounder of SwissDiscover.
A curated place to discover Switzerland.
That's what we set out to build together. Not another booking aggregator. Not another listicle factory. Not another feed of the same ten viewpoints everyone already knows about.
SwissDiscover is the place you go when you want to discover. To wander. To stumble onto a waterfall you'd never heard of. To spot a lakeside village that looks too good to be real. To find the hike your friends haven't found yet. Every spot on the map earned its place because it's worth seeing.
The famous ones are here, of course — you can't make a map of Switzerland without the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau, or Lauterbrunnen. But the hidden gems are what we're chasing. The places locals keep half-secret because they're too good to share with everyone. We're sharing them anyway, because Switzerland is too beautiful to stay behind algorithms.
No corporate travel speak. No trending tab. No algorithms pushing whatever's loudest this week. Just places, imagery, and tools that work.
Just a small team.
We're not a big company. No Silicon Valley office, no VC funding, no army of developers. Just a small team that loves it's country and wanted to build something good around it.
So we move fast. We listen. We tinker. If something's broken, tell us. If you know a spot that should be on the map, a trail, a viewpoint, a tiny restaurant nobody talks about, we want to hear about it. This is community driven as much as we can make it, and the best discoveries come from the people who live here.
Drop us a lineSwitzerland is waiting.
Start with the map. Play the game. Watch a few of Baptiste's videos. Build yourself a trip, or wander around and see where it takes you. We can't wait to see where you end up.
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