Grünsee
Cold, green alpine lake in former glacial terrain, fed by meltwater and springs below high peaks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Grünsee above Zermatt starts with a sum about the Findel Glacier that seems too small to matter. It follows General Guillaume-Henri Dufour and the engravers of his nineteenth-century map office, who cut Swiss mountains into copper in a style the world came to admire. Then it jumps to a Zurich research team leafing through eleven old maps. Best heard at the water's edge, looking up the valley toward the ice.
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