A hiking trail weaves between wooden chalets with slate rooftops above the village of Zermatt. The Matterhorn stands proudly in the background—Canton Valais, Switzerland.
Place me somewhere in the Valais, ‘mid the mountains west of Binn,
West of Binn and east of Savoy, in a decent kind of inn,
With a peak or two for climbing, and a glacier to explore—
Any mountains will content me, though they’ve all been climbed before—
-A.D. Godley (From a poem called “Switzerland” published in his book Second Strings in 1902.)
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