What will music festivals look like next summer?
(WorldNews Music)

Climbers kitted out with crampons and ice axes walk across the top of the 820ft high Mauvoisin Dam en route to scale glaciers on the mountains above, as the thud of a bass drum echoes up from the valley below. “We talked a lot about going the same way as most other festivals and cancelling, but we thought this would be just too sad. If we could do something we needed to try at least”, Michel May tells me. He is one of the organisers of the annual Palp festival – a collection of food, culture and music which takes place every year over the Swiss summer. As the climbers walk past they look slightly bewildered at us tucking into our dam-top brunch, one of the food events on...