Zermatt in 4 days

A 4,478-metre pyramid of four near-symmetrical faces; Whymper reached the top in July 1865, and four of his party died descending.

The highest cable car station in Europe, at 3,883 metres on the Klein Matterhorn, reached in stages from the village over the Theodul Glacier.

A small lake at 2,757 metres, a few minutes below Rotenboden station on the Gornergrat line, where the whole Matterhorn is reflected on still days.

A cog railway opened in 1898 climbs to 3,089 metres, facing 29 peaks over 4,000 metres and the Gorner Glacier.

An underground funicular to 2,288 metres in under five minutes, then a shallow, sun-warmed lake for a swim with the Matterhorn behind.

About thirty barns and granaries of blackened larch packed into a few lanes behind the main street, the oldest from the 16th century.

An underground museum built as a mountain village, on farming life before tourism, the birth of mountaineering and the 1865 ascent.

At Randa, one stop before Zermatt, a 494-metre footbridge 65 cm wide, opened in 2017, hanging up to 85 metres above the Grabengufer ravine.