Henry Georgi Huge peaks surround Zermatt, Switzerland, but the Matterhorn steals the show.
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With the western U.S. still lacking in snow and the Alps being buried beneath a 10-day storm, I decided the place to be was Switzerland. Canadian photographer Henry Georgi and I planned a short-notice trip to Murren, Grindelwald and Zermatt, armed with a 15-day Swiss rail pass and our ski gear.
A few train changes landed us in Lauterbrunnen, where the station was packed with World Cup racers and fans fresh off the Wengen downhill and heading for Kitzbühel and the Hahnenkamm. Not us though. We hopped a cable car that gained us a couple thousand vertical and boarded our final train for the village of Murren, a car-free village surrounded by the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau piercing the skyline. For the next 10 days, we reveled in huge vertical, deep powder, and hot mugs of gluhwein as we ticked off three of the Swiss Alps' most epic mountain resorts.
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