Nightglow Window

Zermatt

From our hotel in Breiten, we backtracked up the valley to the little village of Ernen before heading to Zermatt.

We were quickly out the hotel door to catch the Gornergratbahn rack railway up to 10,100 feet to stand in awe beneath Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, and glaciers.


The very well preserved town of Ernen.









Ernen Rooster Head









The matterhorn from low on the Gornergrat rail line.



Zermatt and the Matterhorn






Monte Rosa is the highest mountain of Switzerland at 15,203 feet.






Castor and Pollux






Breithorn spur



Gornergletscher
























Gornergrat station at 10,100 feet.






Alpine Jenga



You could really appreiciate the scale of it all when this helicopter disappeared smaller than a fly as it traveled up the glacier.









Building Fairy houses beneath Monte Rosa, the highest mountain in Switzerland at 15,203 ft






























On the train heading back down to Zermatt, 3,000 feet below.