Another animal sculpture – an eagle or a buzzard?
My favorite panorama from Klein Matterhorn.. A lot can be seen on this pano – French Alps (Mont Blanc), Swiss Alps (Matterhorn, Dent Blanche, Obergabelhorn, Zinalrothorn, Weisshorn, and many others) + part of the Italian Alps …
I took this one during the afternoon. The funny thing is that I saw a very similar photo on a postcard down in a Zermatt shop. I guess we both intended to have a larch on the foreground :~) …
A typical local inhabitant living in the Matterhorn surroundings. Usually you can see their foot (hoof) prints but rarely the animal.. :~) (Shot at 300mm effective focal length.)
I took another ‘cabin’ photo with the peak a little bit hidden behind the hill. There is also a nice chapel as you can see on the foreground of this picture.
Finally the almighty Monte Rosa (4634m)! The highest point on the Monte Rosa is Dufourspitze – on the right, which is the highest peak in Switzerland, and the second highest peak of the Alps.
It took me around two hours to satisfy my photo-appetite in this beautiful ice palace! All photographs were taken without flash and with long exposures. This makes the ice glow as you can see on this stalagmite.
This is one of my favorite photos that I snapped from the Trockner Steg. On the left you have the Gandegg T-bar lift and on the right Furggsattel Gletscherbahn that was closed due to wind at the time I took the photo.
This is how Zermatt looks from the gondola (Matterhorn Express) on the way to the Furi station.
The palace was built several meters below the surface in the glacier. On this particular picture you can see the second part of the entrance tunnel, which has blue back lighting.
This is the cable car station on Trockner Steg. Your journey will end on Klein Matterhorn at 3883 meters above sea level.
The peak looks really spooky from this view. The right part of it is viewable from Switzerland and the left part from Italy …
The cable car to Klein Matterhorn ends in the mountain, fabulous piece of engineering! When you get of the cable car up there, you have to cross the mountain with a tunnel that goes through the rock!
On the last photo of this gallery I will focus on Alphubel (4206m) in the middle and the Rothorn paradise below it. The highest station is Rothorn (3103m) accessible via a cable car from Blauherd (bottom-left of the pic).
This photograph is taken at the same moment as the second picture above, just the Matterhorn peak is zoomed a little bit to give you an idea how hard it must be to climb this holy of “holies” …
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One of the first things you will see after the entrance is a big sculpture of Buddha. On this photo you can see its profile.
This is yet another picture of Testa Grigia, which is situated on the border of Switzerland and Italy. One of the possible ways to get there is via two T-lifts from Trockner Steg.
You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.
Paulo Coelho
On this picture you have a front view of the mentioned above-life-size sculpture.
This is a view of the Gorner glacier with the peak of Cima di Iazzi (3804m) hiding little bit left of the center..
This is the Stockhorn station located at 3405 meters above sea level. This station operates from the end of January or even later depending on the snow cover.
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things, but look what they can do when they stick together.
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*best shot of paradise ~ 3883m and a lot to see around you..
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
This last photo of the Matterhorn gallery is a view of Matterhorn from the highest sightseeing platform in Europe accessible by cableway at 3883 meters above sea level! Can you get any higher? Without a hike :~D
Matterhorn full on with a nice foreground! This photo is one of my favorite morning shots..
I will start with a picture of the entrance to the Ice Palace. It is located at around 3810 meters above see level. The entrance is rounded, like a tube, and takes you under the ground. As you can see, the architecture it is more functional than esthetic.
Below the church there is a churchyard with graves of many famous mountaineers, climbers.
Not all that wander are lost.
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