I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106.  Rodney does
not mention Leukerbad.

Barb

On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud server
> and am combing through my site for bothersome details.  For those
> interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage:
>
> "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the
> pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short
> distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]."
>
> Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas".
>
> The order of villages is actually reversed.  Leukerbad is the village with
> the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass.  Leuk is the town to the
> south of Leukerbad.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con
> tent/kandersteg-leukerbad
>