by the name Western Breithorn (German: Breithorn (Westgipfel), Italian: Breithorn Occidentale). The nearest settlements are Zermatt (Valais) and St-Jacques...

1980 Funicular Zermatt-Sunnegga. Skilift Testa Grigia II (moved to Plateau Rosa III 2005). Border skilift (Gobba di Rollin/Plateau Breithorn). Skilift Plateau...

few hours. These include the Breithorn and its subsidiary peaks, Pollux and Castor. On December 9, 2005, the ZBAG (Zermatt Bergbahnen AG, the owner of...

The Brig–Zermatt railway line is a metre gauge railway line in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Its 44-kilometre-long (27 mi) line links the communities...

about 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). The Breithorn Plateau area can be easily accessed by several cable cars connecting Zermatt to the Klein Matterhorn and since...

the Visp valley to Zermatt. In 1813, a Frenchman, Henri Maynard, climbed to the Theodul Pass and made the first ascent of the Breithorn; he was accompanied...

Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB), the highest...

touring between the Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, and the Matterhorn, in Zermatt, Switzerland. First charted as a summer mountaineering route by members...

pass between the valleys of Zermatt and Valtournanche. The pass lies between the Matterhorn on the west and the Breithorn on the east and is overlooked...

Stalden, Törbel, Unterbäch Zermatt with Matterhorn and the largest summer ski area of Switzerland, on the southern slopes of Breithorn reachable from the cable...

one of the largest Alpine glaciers) flowing towards the Mattertal with Zermatt. Its main summit, named Dufourspitze in honor of the surveyor Guillaume-Henri...

guideless ascent of Mont Blanc in 1855 and a guideless ascent of the Breithorn. During the first ascent of the Matterhorn on 14 July 1865 Hudson was...

two times. Young wanted to traverse the ridge from the Nordend to the Breithorn. They started from Riffelalp at midnight and finished the traverse of...

Monte Rosa Hut (German: Monte Rosa Hütte) is a mountain hut located near Zermatt on the Monte Rosa massif (up to 4,634 m (15,203 ft)) and above the Grenzgletscher...

valley glacier found on the west side of the Monte Rosa massif close to Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is about 12.4 km (7.7 mi) long...

mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located south of Saas-Fee and east of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It lies on the range that separates the Mattertal...

reached on 1 August, the Swiss National celebration day, in 1855 from Zermatt by a party of eight climbers led by three guides: Matthäus and Johannes...

minor prominence in the area between the Matterhorn and the Breithorn, south of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It lies at a height of 2,939 meters...

d'Anniviers and Mattertal. The respective villages of Evolène, Zinal and Zermatt lie approximatively at the same distance of the mountain. The Dent Blanche...

Trockener Steg, approximately halfway between the Matterhorn and the Breithorn. The hut was built in 1885. List of buildings and structures above 3000...

development of modern tourism in the valley of St. Niklaus and particularly in Zermatt. They also had a monopoly on Matterhorn ascents. Moreover, as the first...

located south of the Breithorn and it is largely covered by ice, the summit area being particularly flat. On the north side is the Breithorn Plateau of the...

and difficult ascents in the Alps, including noted routes on the Zermatt Breithorn on Monte Rosa (the "Younggrat"), the west ridge of the Gspaltenhorn...

canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is located about 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Zermatt. The local language is Swiss German. Täsch is first mentioned in 1302 as...

which offers a taxi service to Zermatt, a car-free town. The Glacier Express train line also connects Randa to Zermatt. Randa is first mentioned in 1305...

of Anniviers and Zermatt in the canton of Valais. In the latter valley, the Weisshorn is one of the many 4000ers surrounding Zermatt, with Monte Rosa...

Switzerland, south of the Rhone valley in the canton of Valais. The village of Zermatt is the most important settlement of the valley, which is surrounded by...

14,033 Mischabeljoch Zermatt to Saas-Fee snow 3,856 12,651 Alphubel Pass Zermatt to Saas-Fee snow 3,802 12,474 Adler Pass Zermatt to Saas-Fee snow 3,798...

Dent Blanche Tête Blanche Tête de Valpelline Dent d'Hérens Matterhorn Breithorn Pollux Castor Liskamm Monte Rosa Strahlhorn Rimpfischhorn Allalinhorn...

range, and is very similar in shape to the Dom when seen from the upper Zermatt valley.: 118  The first ascent of the mountain was by John Llewelyn Davies...