Matterhorn Museum - Zermatlantis
Underground museum of a rebuilt mountain village, holding the rope that snapped on the first ascent.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt gathers around one object in a glass case and the July day in eighteen sixty-five when Edward Whymper and six companions set out to climb a mountain nobody had yet stood on. It touches on the guides from Zermatt and Chamonix, the young Englishmen they led, and the whispers that followed one family home. Stand by the rope display, beneath the glass roof, to listen.
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