Every winter, the Tschäggättä, a frightening costumed figure that roams Lötschental during the winter carnival season, wreaks her mischief. We are plunged into a tradition poised between the past and present. In a world that grows faster, louder and more exposed, she embodies a past that refuses to adapt, even though it ultimately must— offering an unpolished glimpse of a mountain spirit that slips through our grasp and maybe lives on precisely because of that.