October is travel month at Cycling Weekly, and in our first of four issues, we're heading skywards, seeking out the best climbs in the world, and asking why we put ourselves through the pain. In search of the answers, Tom Davidson travelled to Switzerland to take on the cobbled Gotthard Pass, a car-less haven for cyclists. Below is an excerpt from an eight-page feature in the magazine, out today.
It’s a scene worthy of the front of a chocolate box. The mountains open up ahead of me, the white snow glaring in spite of my sunglasses. Speckled in the grassy hills, a smattering of boxy, wooden houses, each with different-coloured shutters, stare back at me.
