Mountaineer's Cemetery
Churchyard graves of some fifty climbers lost on the surrounding peaks, including Matterhorn pioneers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mountaineers' Cemetery in Zermatt begins at the gravestone of Michel Croz, the Chamonix guide who led Edward Whymper's party of seven onto the Matterhorn's summit on the fourteenth of July, eighteen sixty-five. It follows the young novice Douglas Hadow, the Reverend Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas and the Taugwalders, father and son, as the party turns to come down. Stand among the stones beside Croz to hear it.
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