Posts about graveyard
Climbers’ graveyard, Zermatt VS
"In Loving Memory of Freda Currant, who passed into fuller life from the Matterhorn at dawn August 6th 1936 aged 24".
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Climbers’ graveyard, Zermatt VS
The grave of Peter Taugwalder and his son of the same name; the father was the leading guide on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Climbers’ graveyard, Zermatt VS
"Let me go climb these virgin snows, Leave the dark stain of man behind. Let me adventure and heaven knows, Grateful shall be my quiet mind." Jonathan Conville was originally from Odiham in Hampshire, near where I grew up. The Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust www.jcmt.org.uk/
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I Remember
There are some times of year when it’s strange to be at home in a country where the national history is different. In November, two of them fall within days of each other: Guy Fawkes Night and Armistice Day.
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Death of a cemetery
Sad news comes today for the family and fans of the “Autofriedhof”: the site must be cleared. Here’s an article about the closure, which I’ve translated from the German article at the Swiss newspaper “Tagesanzeiger”.
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Auto Cemetery, Kaufdorf, Switzerland
The Autofriedhof (car cemetery) is an extraordinary collection of rotting cars, dumped by a spare parts salesman on land behind his workshops since the 1930s in Kaufdorf, between Thun and Bern. The cars, in varying stages of decomposition, have remained untouched since they were abandoned in the woods and are now mainly collapsed hulks. The […]
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