It's hard to describe the scene from the top of the Gornergrat. You take a cog-wheel train from Zermatt at 1,800m up to the Gornergrat peak at 3,112 meters (10,210 feet). Sweeping in a full panorama, you are surrounded by twenty-nine 4,000+ meter peaks, a tremendous glacier carves its way through the mountains, and the Matterhorn is perfectly framed as the lord of all. It is the most striking view I have ever seen. And rather than try to put it into words, I'll show you with pictures and a short little video...
Also it must be noted, that I might have been the first person above 10,000 feet to wear linen pants (What? I was coming from Provence!).
