Posts about Wallis / Valais (Switzerland)

  • The Matterhorn is now yours alone

    The Matterhorn is now yours alone

    Behind the scenes of filming sequences for an advert filmed by Swiss cinematographer Noah Malin, beginning with a challenging hike to the Hörnli Hut and then some dramatic drone sequences around and above the summit of the Matterhorn. The film makers were alone on the hike and at the hut, and were able to fly

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  • Jonathan Henry Conville

    “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 A memorial stone in the grounds of the St Peter’s Church (“The English Church”) in Zermatt. Jonathan Conville was originally from Odiham in Hampshire, near where I grew up.

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