5 reasons to love Zermatt in the Summer

Zermatt is a top destination for gnarly Alpine types, especially at this time of year, when the ski touring season is well under way and men in lycra are to be seen, striding down the cobbled streets, skis strapped on backpacks, festooned with ropes and tinkling karabiners (to counterpoint the goat bells), sun tanned, smiling, and wielding ice axes. As summer gets under way, and the ice bridges melt on the glaciers, the hairy, muscled eye candy disappear to be replaced by a more genteel and leisurely tourist, clad in Jet Set rather than Arcteryx, but none the less intrepid. There are 38 peaks over 4000m high around Zermatt, and the Matterhorn is not even the tallest. To climb any of them requires a level of fitness higher than the usual entry level to a gym in South Kensington, yet Zermatts summer tourists are ready for anything. What attracts them is the luxury. Who says...

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