Zmutt
Centuries-old hamlet of dark wooden houses and a white chapel on a pasture rise below the Matterhorn.
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This guide to Zmutt, the old hamlet above Zermatt, follows William Penhall and the Matterhorn ridge that carries the hamlet's name. It is set in the late summer of eighteen seventy-nine, when two climbing parties wanted the same unclimbed line, and one of them had to sit out a night of bad weather on it. You'll meet Albert Mummery and the guide Alexander Burgener along the way. Best heard on the rise among the dark wooden houses, facing the mountain.
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