Gorner Gorge
Narrow serpentinite gorge carved by glacier meltwater, crossed on wooden walkways clinging to the rock.
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This guide to the Gorner Gorge in Zermatt goes down into the narrow serpentinite cleft of the Gornera river, where the sky closes to a slit overhead. It turns on the years eighteen eighty-six and eighteen eighty-seven, when two pairs of local brothers set out to hang a path along the cliff, and on the bargain they struck with the village for the right to do it. Best heard on the wooden walkway, with one hand on the green rock wall.
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