on the Zermatt-Arolla trail near the Matterhorn summit, which straddles the Swiss-Italian border. As per the authority, five of the skiers were of the same family from the Valais canton.

marking the real beginning of Swiss glacier archaeology. On the Schnidejoch, a mountain pass between the cantons of Valais and Berne, the hood of a Neolithic bow case turned up. Then a bronze ...