Thursday, October 12, 2006

The Matterhorn!












Matterhorn (4478m) seen from the bridge in Zermatt










The Matterhorn (4478m)










Swiss chalet


The Matterhorn seen from near Riffelberg


Signpost


The train line from Zermatt up to Gornergrat






The Matterhorn (4478m) seen from the Gornergrat plateau


Riffelberg (2582m) in the foreground, Zermatt (1620m) down below, Mettelhorn (3406m) on the left










Castor (4228m) & Pollux (4092m)


Liskamm (4527m), Castor (4228m), Pollux (4092m), Breithorn (4164), their snow feeding down into the Gornergletscher


A frozen lake in the Gornergletscher


From the left: the Unt. Theodultgletscher, Breithorn (4164m), Matterhorn (4478m) and in the foreground, Riffelhorn (2927m)


Monte Rosa (Dufourspitze), 4634m and the Gornergletscher


Those distant peaks are in Italy, highest is the Cima di Jazzi (3803m)


Mont Liskamm, (4527m), and the Grenzgletscher flowing down into the Gornergletscher








Night sweeps slowly up the mountainside

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi there. I was randomly surfing until I stopped by your blog. Those pictures you took are really great as if I've been there when I looked at them. Great job done! Keep up the good work!

Hope to read your blog again, if I have the fate to visit your blog again.

Good day.

7:12 AM  
Blogger Ben said...

Well, buttercup, I hope fate permits you and my blog to cross paths again...but even if not, thanks for the compliments and for putting a link to my blog on yours.

12:21 AM  

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