Natural feature
Gorner Glacier
Third-longest valley glacier in the Alps, a crevassed river of ice shrinking back up its valley.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Gorner Glacier above Zermatt follows Mark Twain, the American humorist, and the comic mountain expedition he invented for his travel book A Tramp Abroad. It finds his enormous party up on the Gorner Grat ridge with a long way down to the village, a pile of umbrellas and a guidebook full of advice. Best heard looking down onto the ice, where its white bulk and deep crevasses run down the valley.
This audio guide was created using AI.