FROF - The Free Republic Of Feydey

Welcome to the new FROF website!

This is the virtual home of FROF [The Free Republic Of Feydey] a very loose association of people who live or have lived in Leysin-Feydey, Switzerland.

FROF was born in the late 1970s when we declared our independence from Switzerland and became the Free Republic of Feydey. Unfortunately the Swiss government failed to take notice!

The history of FROF really goes back nearly 40 years, to the opening in Leysin of Club Vagabond, a place dear to the hearts of many people traveling in Europe from 1960 until the early 1990's. Also at this time the International School of Mountaineering (ISM) opened, attracting the elite of the international climbing community, to Leysin and the bar at the Vag.

We hope to bring together of the people who have passed through (or are still trying to get out! of) the "magic mountain" and wish to get back in contact with some of the special people they encountered there.

Whether you are "still high in the Alps", on the beach in Bali, traveling on the Tibetan plateau or at home somewhere on this little planet, through this site we hope to establish a virtual community that remains alive, in touch and forever revolutionary.