When it comes to beautiful winter scenery, Switzerland is hard to beat. We’re looking at the Gornergrat railway station with the peak of the Matterhorn in the background. One of the last great peaks of the Alps to be climbed by humans, the Matterhorn was finally summited in 1865, capping off the decade or so that’s been called the ‘golden age of alpinism.’ The iconic peak is a daunting pyramid of stone and ice, towering just inside Switzerland’s border with Italy.
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