Location: Zermatt
Top Things to do in Zermatt
The 10 Best Things to do Adventurous in Zermatt, Swiss Alps
When most people think of Zermatt, they think of one thing: The Matterhorn. This ultimate Swiss icon looms over Zermatt, first drawing visitors here in the 1860s. The village of Zermatt itself is lovely and car-free, with old-fashioned brown chalets and winding alleys. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to walk everywhere—there are electric vehicles and horse-drawn cabs.) Skiing in the region often lasts through early summer, but when the weather’s warmer, it’s a great time to hike.
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1. The Matterhorn
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5.0 based on 3,906 reviews
This imposing mountain towers 14,700 feet on the Swiss-Italian border.
Reviewed By Whiztech21 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The towering peak of the Matterhorn straddles Switzerland and Italy is an amazing mountain that everyone should have on their bucket list. One of the mountain's secrets is that it has an igloo village at the mountain's base.
2. Breithorn
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5.0 based on 127 reviews
The Breithorn (4,164 m), with its many summits, is a strong, glaciered mountain crest. The normal climb is considered as one of the easiest routes for climbing a four-thousand metre mountain. This tour is a perfect way to get a sense of high Alpine air for the first time but only for surefooted and experienced mountain hikers accompanied by a mountain guide. The tour includes climbing a glaciated four thousand-metre peak, and this is not to be underestimated. In the early morning, one takes the aerial tramway to Matterhorn glacier paradise at 3,883 m. The climb to the top and the descent afterwards lasts about three hours depending on the conditions. Even though the climb is not dizzying, the tour does offer a high Alpine mountain experience where one can live out the feeling of having one’s head already in outer space. •Snow tour on the glacier •The overall difficulty of the tour is given as “L” (easy) •A mountain guide is recommended •Warning: glacier crevasses
Reviewed By 482yvesr
Easiest doesn't mean easy. But you can climb a mountain at more than 4000m from sea level. Good shoes, ice crampons, a guide and a rope for the ice field. Take your time (oxygen is limited at this altitude) and you can go climb the last 400m of altitude in 90mn-2h if you are in good physical shape from the cable car station. If I did it, you can. But don't forget getting an experienced person to lead the rope (Local guides are easily available; They are not cheap, but going without experience would be a good way to test the emergency services in Zermatt). In the end, you'll feel at the top of the world!
3. Flybypara
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5.0 based on 52 reviews
Flybypara is Switzerland`s leading expert in paragliding tandem flights and active tours around the world
4. Fly Zermatt Paragliding
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5.0 based on 54 reviews
Enjoy the experience of a lifetime paragliding in one of the most iconic settings in the Swiss Alps... the Matterhorn and township of Zermatt! Our professional pilots will take you on a journey you will never forget including spectacular views of the many surrounding mountain peaks.
5. Stoked Snowsports School
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5.0 based on 387 reviews
Stoked was founded in 1994 as a snowboard school in Zermatt, Switzerland, and it has been growing ever since. Today, we offer 4 “Stoked Worlds” to our customers including: Skiing, Snowboarding, Bootfitting & Biomechanics, and Stoked Experience, the Zermatt event agency. The company is owned by three Swiss partners and brothers: Christian Meier, Jürg Meier, Michael Meier, all of whom have spent the past few years putting all their motivation, commitment, competence and idealism into making Stoked an important player on the Zermatt holiday scene. In our Stoked World we have also made it our goal to provide the most consistent, flexible customer-orientated services possible.
Reviewed By W6612MEsamanthab
Just concluded a brilliant week of skiing and tuition from Lello at Stoked. I started the week as a nervous intermediate skier and finished with new found confidence and much much better technique thanks to Lello’s skill, patience and great sense of humour. I actually enjoyed doing the red runs!
6. Air Zermatt
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5.0 based on 121 reviews
The helicopter company Air Zermatt provides transport and rescue services for the Zermatt-Matterhorn destination. It also offers all kinds of adventures for visitors – such as sightseeing flights around the Matterhorn. Air Zermatt was founded in 1965. Its fleet includes ultra-modern helicopters, individually equipped according to use. Modern mountain rescue owes its existence to Air Zermatt. Equipment and techniques such as longline (rescues from cliff faces) and tripod (rescues from glacier crevasses) were developed and refined here. •Sightseeing flights •Heli-skiing •Supply of provisions for mountain refuges •Transport for construction projects in the mountains and in resort •Forestry work on the mountain slopes •Rescues •Transfers to hospitals and specialist clinics •Airport transfers (Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Sion, etc.) •Guided tours of the heliport (for groups) •Observation bench by the heliport (on the Zermatt–Tasch footpath)
7. Hohbalmen
8. Family Skiing Zermatt
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5.0 based on 36 reviews
Ski School in Zermatt. Small team of professional ski instructors will make your ski holidays safe and fun.
Reviewed By Pathfinder725143 - Cork, Ireland
We booked Janna with only 12 hours notice and we had the most wonderful time. Janna knows Zermatt and all of the ski runs really well and she went to extreme lengths to make sure we not only had the best possible skiying but she also took us to all of the must see points without compromising our ski time. We were a group of 4 3 skiers from starter to intermediate and one who was not skiying at all. Janna catered for all 4 of us in a way that we all got the most possible out of the time she spent with us. Start and finish times were moved to accomodate in any way we wanted. I would have to say we stumbled on Family Skiying by accident but what a luck for us. I will be back alone in March and will not go out any day without Janna. She knows the slopes so well and makes everything work to your ability . Thanks Janna for a wonderful time.
9. Alpine Ski School
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5.0 based on 616 reviews
Ski & snowboard lessons in one of the most popular resort in Europe, Zermatt. We bring to you a team of highly qualified and passionate instructors whom can teach in over ten languages...
Reviewed By BecKontos
I decided to switch from snowboarding to skiing and took 4 half-day private lessons. Dido was beyond awesome!!!! By the fourth day I extended to a full day and Dido took me on a tour up to the glacier and across to Italy, they were the most amazing runs!! He even booked us lunch at a beautiful Italian restaurant (Chateau Étoiles). After 3 years of group lessons for snowboarding at a different resort and being on my butt most of the time I can’t believe how fast I progressed with private lessons....well worth the money!! 1.5hours into the first lesson we were already off the training area. Communication was fast and very easy via text with Riccardo. Dido was a great teacher, very knowledgeable and passionate. Would definitely recommend and hopefully return one day!!
10. Alpenwild
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5.0 based on 117 reviews
Reviewed By DaidHiker
I recently completed Alpenwild’s Eiger-Matterhorn Trek, which is a beautiful trip. It has some really great hikes over high passes and some spectacular sightseeing. Because these trips can be expensive, in money and time commitment, my comments are more extensive than usual. Pre-Trip Process. Working with Alpenwild to book a trip is a delight. We worked with Tessa C., who answered many, many questions; helped us coordinate a follow-on self-guided hike; and worked through the many options on Swiss rail tickets. Alpenwild provides a true turnkey service, beginning at the airport of arrival and ending at departure. This makes travel much easier. Hiking Route. The trip is very well designed. While the hiking is deferred a day after arrival, this is in order to allow a trip on the train through the Eiger to the Jungfrauhoch. Once you work your way through the crowds and shops, the views are simply breathtaking. The hike includes two very long and rewarding days over high passes, with a rest day in between. The views are consistently rewarding and beautiful. The guides made smart decisions on when to use lifts and gondolas along the way. This maximized our time hiking with views and limited the time hiking under cable lines. Accommodations and Meals. On this trip, the accommodations were very nice and at the top end of what is available in some of the locales. Zermatt is the highlight for accommodations, with a stay at a truly luxurious hotel. Everything else was very fine to very good. The half board dinners included with the trip ranged from good to excellent. There were some places with no menu choices at all, but that is customary at some of the smaller places. There were some nights when the ordering was fully a la carte, which was a nice break. The mix of hut and picnic lunches was spot on. The guides, Louis W-E and Tom C. (see below) laid out excellent picnics that were truly enjoyable. It is good to mix the hut meals and picnics because of the time it takes to order, eat and pay at the huts. The fact that the Alpenwild includes soft drinks and bottled water really moves the process along when settling the bill. Guides. Our guides, Louis W-E and Tom C., were stars. Louis W-E was the lead guides. His knowledge is vast and made the trip more interesting. He set an excellent and careful pace for the hikers. He was very attentive to safety details and the well-being of the group. The simplest way to summarize is that I would select an Alpenwild trekking trip simply based on the identification of Louis as lead guide. The assistant guide, Tom C., also was just great. His climbing, trekking and mountaineering background added a lot to the trip, and he worked hard as could be. His ability to read the landscape, which he had not seen before, added to my experience. Louis and Tom also had great people skills. They were careful to maintain a steady group pace, not letting the “jackrabbits” set a pace that was too fast and also not letting the slower hikers slow down the entire group. Louis and Tom also mingled with all the hikers. This is an excellent skill, and I have been on guided trips where the failure of the guides to mix caused resentments. All in all, this is a great trip. While perhaps not as hard as the Tour de Mont Blanc or the Haute Route, the two high passes are as difficult as any days on any other hike. And the change to see the Eiger/Munch/Jungfrau and the 4000-meter peaks around Zermatt in one trip is truly wonderful.
