Mountain Guiding in the Alps – Monkey Puzzle Tree

Summer, 2003

I spent a season (June, July, August) guiding and climbing in the Swiss and French Alps, mainly out of Zermatt (the Monte Rosa area and the Matterhorn), and Chamonix (around the Mont Blanc massif).

Summit ridge on Mt. Castor (4,223 m)

Some of the routes out of Zermatt

Me with a client

Markus and Stephan

View of the Matterhorn and the Hornli Hut
the ridge in the center is the Hornli Ridge, the main route

Zermatt mountaineering cemetery, containing all the people that have died on the Matterhorn or around Zermatt climbing

View down to Zermatt from the Matterhorn

View up the Whymper route on the Matterhorn