Furi
Alpine hamlet of old wooden barns on pasture once buried by glacier ice, with a major lift hub.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Furi, the hamlet of barns and meadows above Zermatt, is about the Gorner glacier as a neighbour rather than a view. It begins in eighteen forty-five, with the scientist John Ball timing the ice, and turns to the families below who watched it creep toward their fields. Along the way you will hear about a buried alp called Im Boden and the timber locals hurried to save. Best heard standing among the old wooden barns.
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