Each story is rooted in real local history and landmarks
Two rival mountain goats — one from the Swiss side, one from the Italian side — race up the Matterhorn, mirroring the famous Whymper-Carrel rivalry of 1865. Through tumbles and teamwork, they learn that the mountain is big enough for both and that reaching the top means nothing without friends.
A child visits the Matterhorn Museum and touches the broken rope from 1865. It whispers the story of the seven climbers — the joy at the summit, the terrible fall, and the question of blame. Through the rope’s memory, the child relives the most dramatic moment in Alpine history.
A child arrives in Zermatt and notices something strange: no car noise. The village’s tiny electric taxis tell the story of how they replaced horses in the 1980s, why clean air matters when you live at the foot of the Matterhorn, and what a community can achieve when it decides to change.
The Gornergrat Railway engine is nervous about its very first trip to the top in 1898. A child conductor encourages it past the gorge, through the snowfields, to the 3,089-metre summit — where the breathtaking panorama of 29 peaks makes every turn of the cogwheel worthwhile.
The Gorner Glacier tells a child about the centuries it has seen — growing during the Little Ice Age, retreating now at 30 metres per year. It asks the child to remember what it once looked like, because glaciers cannot carry their own memories when they melt away.
A child learns that the Matterhorn’s summit rock travelled from Africa on a tectonic plate over 100 million years. The mountain tells the story of its extraordinary journey in a single magical night — from the ancient ocean floor to the roof of Europe.
A boy from the Goms valley sees strangers arriving in Zermatt with ropes and ice axes. Opening a small inn, he discovers that sharing his mountains with the world changes everything — the story of Alexander Seiler and the birth of Alpine tourism.
A child who speaks only standard German arrives in Zermatt and cannot understand anyone. The Matterhorn itself — ds Horu — teaches the child the old Walser words one peak at a time, revealing that language is a living thing shaped by mountains, snow, and centuries of isolation.
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