On my two previous trips to Switzerland’s tiny-but-touristy Zermatt, I failed to catch a glimpse of the glorious Matterhorn mountain that draws so many to the burg at its base for a peek at the peak.

On my two previous trips to Switzerland's tiny-but-touristy Zermatt, I failed to catch a glimpse of the glorious Matterhorn mountain that draws so many to the burg at its base for a peek at the peak.

In the lee of the mountain Italians call Monte Cervino – better known to the rest of the world as the Matterhorn – Cervinia ...

ZERMATT, Switzerland — “You know Teddy Roosevelt climbed it,” an elderly man, dressed in a puffy jacket and black beanie hat, said to us. We were standing on Kirchbrücke, the church bridge in Zermatt, ...

This long time exposure taken late on July 13, 2015 in Zermatt shows lamps illuminating the path of the first climb on the Matterhorn (Mont Cervin) mountain. The resort celebrates this year the 150 ...

The ski resort on the Italian side of the Matterhorn (or Cervino) is popular in part because it provides access to the same ...

I was enjoying a scrumptious meal at Madre Nostra, an Italian restaurant in a gorgeously restored chalet in Zermatt, as Janine Imesch, my table-mate, pondered why it is that people around the world ...

A view out of a the new gondola towards mountain station Klein Matterhorn before the official opening of the new Matterh... (KEYSTONE/DOMINIC STEINMANN) Police in Switzerland are desperately searching ...

ZERMATT, Switzerland (dpa) – The magical moment on the Matterhorn comes when the first rays of sun bathe the summit in a blushing red. The moment is a slow one as the sun reddens the mountain’s 4,778 ...

Looming over the Swiss mountain town of Zermatt with its forbidding peak twisting upwards like a collapsed witch's hat, the Matterhorn was said to be home to evil spirits. It was they whom locals ...