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Tag Archives: Zermatt
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
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Half buried but alive
Winter is tough when for several months you are half buried in snow, but the coniferous trees of the Alps are used to it and they do indeed survive. This image was taken within a minute or two of the … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Minimalism, Photography, Schwarzsee, Ski, skiing, Skiing with a camera, Stafelalp, Zermatt
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Matterhorn North Face
Skiing is the fastest way to move around the mountains, and it can get you to places that would take two or three hours to walk to. This is one of my favourite places in the Zermatt valley – Stafelalp, … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Matterhorn, Photography, Schwarzsee, Ski, skiing, Stafelalp, Zermatt
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Where once there was a glacier
Zermatt sits at the SE end of a side valley off the major Rhone valley. A road and a railway provide access to it via a twenty-mile, narrow, dramatic gorge; but if you want to travel further you use your … Continue reading
Posted in Walking in the Alps
Tagged Col d'Herens, Fluhalp, Glacial Retreat, Hydro, Lateral Moraine, Sediment, Stafelalp, Sustainability, Zermatt, Zmutt Glacier
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Forest Walk
There are some walks that I never tire of walking. And this is one of them. A short uphill walk from Zermatt leads to a balcony walk – a traverse – a couple of hundred feet above the village. It’s … Continue reading
A line of trees
I’ve been missing for two weeks. I’ve been elsewhere, and those of you who know me well will have figured that I was away in the European Alps, as is usual at this time of the year. I’ve just been … Continue reading
Posted in Walking in the UK
Tagged Black and White Photography, Photography, Silhouette, Trees, Zermatt
24 Comments
Tunnel Vision
You go to the Alps for a two-week holiday, enjoy the scenery and the wide-open spaces, and come back with grabbed images of something entirely different. That’s how I see the world. My Eye is never closed to an opportunity, … 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
Balcony Cafe
There are some buildings that I return to time and time again because they just appeal to me so much. This is the Balcony of the Backstage Cafe – part of the Backstage Boutique Hotel above the Cinema in the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Backstage Boutique Hotel, Heinz Julen, Photography, Zermatt
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High Up and Close Up
I posted an image of the highest point reached on our recent holiday in Zermatt about a month ago (click here to view). It shows the rocky pyramid of the Mettelhorn The headline image today looks down from the top of the … Continue reading
Posted in Swiss Alps - Summer
Tagged Melt water, Mettelhorn, Photography, Platthorn, Snowfield, Wellenkuppe, Zermatt
9 Comments