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Da Dani, mein 4000-er Begleiter in August in der Schweiz war,
habe ich das lange Wochenende in Belgien (15-18. 8.) auch ausgenützt
und bin nach Genf gefahren um wieder an einem Bergabenteuer
teilzunehmen. Der Plan war, die Monte Rosa, die der Name einer
Gruppe von Gipfeln an der schweizerisch-italienischen Grenze
ist, zu besteigen. Das wichtigste Vorhaben war, auf die Dufourspitze
zu steigen, der der höchste unter diesen Gipfeln und zugleich
höchster Punkt der Schweiz ist, aber prinzipiell wollten wir
das meiste schaffen was in die 3 Tage hineinpasste.
The starting point for Monte Rosa is a village called Zermatt
situated at the south end of a north-south valley. Zermatt is
beautiful but unfortunately highly touristy village famous for
several things: it is the most southern German speaking settlement
in Europe, it has still many of those wooden houses standing
on wooden columns and stone plates and, again, covered with
stone plates, representing ancient Swiss rural architecture
for the protection of which it is totally closed for vehicles
with a gas engine so that all transport in the village is managed
with electric vehicles and that the only way to access the village
is by the Zermatt railway that, conscious of its monopoly, charges
16 Swiss francs for a round trip ticket of a 5km track.
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