Monte Rosa Hotel
Historic alpine hotel where Matterhorn pioneers lodged, with a facade plaque to Edward Whymper.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Monte Rosa Hotel in Zermatt follows the hotel keeper Alexander Seiler and his guests in July eighteen sixty-five, when Edward Whymper gathered six companions under this roof for the first ascent of the Matterhorn. It opens on the afternoon of the climb, with a village boy running in to report something he had seen on the peak. Best heard on Bahnhofstrasse, facing the hotel entrance with the mountain up the valley behind you.
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