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Tag Archives: Gornergrat
An intruder in the snow-scape
To ski down you have to travel up. One of the ski areas above Zermatt is served by the Gornergrat cog railway that terminates at Gornergrat – a place that has featured repeatedly in my posts. From there the skier … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Gornergrat, Gornergrat Bahn, Photography, Ski, skiing, Zermatt
3 Comments
Sculpted
This image follows on from my previous post – Click here to view. Glaciers look totally different in summer from what they do in winter. This is the Gorner glacier (2,000ft below me) clad in its winter cloak of snow … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Crevasses, Gorner Glacier, Gornergrat, Photography, Winter snow
12 Comments
Specks of Humanity
One of the difficulties I face as a photographer, who also skis, is how to portray the vastness of the mountain-scape through which we travel. One of the answers is to include fellow adventurers in the image. When fellow skiers … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Black and White Photography, Gorner Glacier, Gornergrat, Gornergrat Bahn, Photography, Ski Touring
11 Comments
Water Grass
Where there are mountains there are likely to be lakes – large or small. The Zermatt valley is a classic example, with a number of small lakes among the high mountains. Some are filled from glacial meltwater and are recently … Continue reading
Rock Strata
On the margins of the Gorner Glacier there are some extraordinary rock formations. Striped rocks, blue-grey alternating with shades of yellow, rippled and twisted – evidence of the colossal forces at work hundreds of millions of years ago that laid … Continue reading
The Gornergrat Railway
Zermatt’s high points in winter are not just the preserve of the skier. Anyone can ride the Gornergrat Railway to one of the great viewing platforms in the Alps, although the cost is significant. At the top, there’s a hotel … Continue reading
Posted in Black & White, Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Gornergrat, Gornergrat Bahn, Photography, Ski, skiing, Zermatt
20 Comments
Revealed
Late morning on the second day’s skiing in Zermatt, the cloud cover that had oppressively shrouded the mountains started to thin and a watery sun appeared directly overhead as I reached the top lift station at Hohtalli. Was it going … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Gornergrat, Matterhorn, Photography, Rothorn, Ski, skiing, Zermatt
16 Comments
A Day of Two Halves
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the photographic possibilities of a distant place. This, I think, is particularly true of holidays in the mountains. There are the ever-changing vistas and panoramas encountered when out walking that change as you walk … Continue reading
Posted in Alpine Flowers, MountainScape, Swiss Alps - Summer
Tagged Frontier Ridge, Gentian, Gornergrat, Photography, Riffelsee, Rotenboden, Zermatt
10 Comments
Monte Rosa – twice
I was fantastically lucky with the weather last week. A week’s skiing in Zermatt included 6 days when the sun shone out of a predominantly blue sky. On only one morning out of the six, the day started with high … Continue reading
Posted in MountainScape
Tagged Black and White Photography, Castor, Gornergrat, Gornergrat Bahn, Liskamm, Monte Rosa, Photography, Pollux, Zermatt
12 Comments
Nature’s Abstracts
A week or more ago I wrote about how it can be difficult to find something new to say about a place that has been re-visited several times and well documented photographically. Looking steeply down onto the Gorner glacier from … Continue reading
Posted in MountainScape
Tagged Glacial movement, Gorner Glacier, Gornergrat, Photography, Zermatt
17 Comments