Standing on its tip, my crampon points biting into a rim of ... an unwieldy team of seven men of varying experience: Zermatt mountain guides Peter Taugwalder and his son Peter Jr., an accomplished ...

It rises high above the little Swiss town of Zermatt, providing one of the most incredible backdrops to mountain biking you could ever wish for. With this towering peak raising the bar on the ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain Guide Nicolò ... such as ice axe, crampons, ...

The remains of the hiker, who has yet to be publicly identified by police, were found by two other mountaineers in Zermatt ... deceased’s boot as well as a crampon, a device that allows the ...

It’s just a very special, wonderful place. Zermatt is arguably the most famous mountain town in the world, mainly because it sits in the shadow of the world’s most recognizable mountain ...

In the blue run from Sunnegga to Findeln, in the shadow of the flint-like Matterhorn, you had better not get distracted by the view – or ski too fast – or you will miss the first four mountain ...

The large number of day trippers is causing problems for the Swiss tourism hotspot of Zermatt, which lies in the shadow of the iconic Matterhorn mountain. Now the idea of a tourist levy is ...

If you like to venture into this kind of consequential terrain, crampons provide much needed security by connecting you securely to the mountain. Even the earliest mountain pioneers understood the ...

The mountain village could rest in the shadow of its famous mountain peaks. But Zermatt is investing in state-of-the-art technology so that nothing stands in the way of attracting more tourists.