Experts' Choice Award Mountaineers' Cemetery
What the experts agree on
This sobering cemetery honors early mountaineers and guides who died climbing nearby peaks like the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa. Beautifully maintained gravestones offer poignant reminders of mountaineering's dangers.
Lonely Planet "A sobering experience. Numerous gravestones tell of untimely deaths on Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn and Breithorn." Full review
Frommer's "The cemetery contains the beautifully tended graves and memorials of a number of those heroic early mountaineers and their local mountain guides." Full review
