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Zermatt is known throughout the world for its skiing, especially Triftji for its moguls. The high altitude results in consistent skiing continuously throughout the summer. Skiing in Zermatt is split up into four areas: Sunnegga, Gornergrat, Klein Matterhorn and Schwarzsee.
The Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt is a cultural-natural museum whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses (church, hotel, huts and granaries), and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area, including the story of the first ascent of the ...
The name Matterhorn derives from the German words Matte ("meadow") and Horn ("horn"), [6] and is often translated as "the peak of the meadows". [2]In the Schalbetter map, printed by Sebastian Münster in 1545, the valley is labelled Mattertal, but the mountain has the Latin name Mons Silvius as well as the German name Augstalberg, in concord with the Aosta Valley (German Augstal).
For the first time, it was feasible to operate through coaches all the way from Zermatt to St. Moritz and return. On 25 June 1930 (), the first train of such coaches set out from Zermatt to St. Moritz, under the name Glacier Express. [3] The new train's name honoured the Rhone Glacier, which is near Gletsch, on the Furka Pass. [2]
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The Glacier Express' full route runs between Switzerland's St. Moritz and Zermatt, although travelers in first and second-class seats can book shorter segments. ©Glacier Express "It keeps ...
The main novice arterial of the Sunnegga area, the Standard, starts at Blauherd, and continues down to Sunnegga.There is a narrow, often busy, novice run down to Findeln, Easy run, which mainly serves the purpose of serving the area's famous restaurants and terminates at the 4-seat Findeln chairlift.
Zermatt is a popular mountain resort renowned for skiing and attracts tourists from around the world. The road to Zermatt has been cut off after being partly buried by snow from an avalanche ...