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May '07

Climbing Matterhorn mountain

Part of admin's adventure in Destinations

** FILE ** The rising sun illuminates the Matterhorn mountain, seen from Zermatt, Canton of Valais, South-Western Switzerland, Jan. 6, 2007. At 14,690 feet (4,478 meters), the Matterhorn is not even the highest mountain in Switzerland _ but it surely is the most photogenic, rising up on four elegant faces to a craggy peak along the Swiss-Italian border. Walt Disney even borrowed its silhouette for Disneyland, debuting the Matterhorn Bobsleds ride in 1959. (AP Photo/Keystone,Olivier Maire)One sheer drop-off to the right, another eight feet to the left. A switchback ridge so steep that three steps brings you to the next turn. Rope handholds to clutch when the mountain trail shrinks to less than a foot wide.


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