Requiem for the Matterhorn (views)

Posted as guest by Javier:

"Pyramid with sky platform towering 117 m over the summit of the Klein Matterhorn planned

New 4000-metre peak in Zermatt:

Pyramid with sky platform towering 117 m over the summit of the Klein Matterhorn planned
Zermatt Mountain Cableways have opted for Heinz Julen’s and Ueli Lehmann’s superlative project…"

http://www.zermatt.ch/e/latest/Projekt-Klein-Matterhorn.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/07/walp07.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/07/ixworld.html

Do they think that people visit Switzerland for their engineers rather than for their mountains. Are they willing to sacrifice one of the most emblematic views of the Alps and the symbol of Switzerland for this nonsense?

While some common sense is gaining ground worldwide and mountain projects tend to minimise impact it seems that here the opposite is going on.

J

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