Zermatt - English Church / Monte Rosa Hotel

Above the Zermatt Alpine Museum are the guides' and ski school office and the English church (1871), built by the Alpine Club (founded 1857), which has the graves of climbers in the churchyard. Farther up the village is the Monte Rosa Hotel (1852), for 30 years the headquarters of all climbers in Zermatt, which has preserved much of its original character. A bronze plaque (1925) commemorates Edward Whymper, who made a series of attempts on the Matterhorn between 1860 and 1865. The neat little parish church to the left of the hotel dates from 1576.