Zermatt

Zermatt, an important centre for tourists in Switzerland, is a small village of (1888) 525 inhabitants, near the upper end of the Visp valley in Valais, 25 miles SSW. of Visp by the railway opened in 1891. It stands 5315 feet above the sea, having to the south the great Théodule glacier, above which towers the Breithorn on the east and beyond the Monte Rosa group, and on the west the rocky cone of the Matterhorn. The churchyard contains the graves of many of the victims of mountaineering. The Théodule Pass or Matterjoch (10,899 feet) leads to Aosta in Italy.