Without a doubt, the best way to get to Zermatt is to do so by train. Firstly because the town is forbidden to cars, the railways are a bit to Switzerland what the automobile is to the United States, but even more because this slow and steady ascent in the Mattertal valley allows to fully immerse yourself in the landscape. This rack line set up in 1891, well before the tarmac road, gives the measure of these mountains which seem to rise higher and higher as they progress. In Zermatt, 1,620 meters above sea level, the peaks play in the big leagues, even the very tall: 34 of the more than “
4,000
” out of the 58 in Switzerland are within sight of the area.
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It is not for nothing that the resort acquired the status of an alpine sports pantheon, a high mountain specialty, from the middle of the 19th century
", underlines Line February Metry, director of the Hotel National Zermatt.
Above all, there is the Matterhorn ...
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