"Today there are more than 100 high- speed gondolas, chairlifts, cable cars and cog railways throughout the skiable terrain and over the summit into Cervinia, Italy."
" .. a parade of Euro mink, beaver and leather struts the Bahnhofplatz"
It ambles steadily through town, over the Visp River that gives Zermatt its picturesque pedestrian bridges
" .. Bahnhofplatz to the beat of clippety-cloppety horse-drawn carriages or sleighs racing off to the finest hotels"
" .. on those days when the snow arrives, as we soon find out, it comes down wholesale"
"On this very Alice-in-Wonderland afternoon, we circumnavigate pool-sized crevices, 30-storey frozen icefalls and literally ski through the glacier, exiting through a rabbit hole under an arena-sized block of blue ice."
"Theodulgletscher glacier, one of the frozen fingers to the massive Gorner Glacier, which at 57 square km, makes it Europe’s second-largest."
" ..there also remain untouched steeps in several directions with nothing but chamois on them."
"The main attraction, the locus of all the colour and beauty is, of course, the Alps’s ultimate diva, the craggy Matterhorn."
Monte Rosa in Zermatt
" ..sleighs racing off to the finest hotels"
"The half-filled train means we place our skis on racks, take off our packs and jackets, and spread out comfortably (it may be old uphill technology, but talk about civilized!)."
" ..its otherworldly terminus at the massive hotel whose façade is topped with an enormous onion-shaped telescope on each of its twin towers some 10 km skywards."
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