The Swiss Alps

Ascending Mount Pilatus (2013-09-12)

According to legend, Pontius Pilate was buried in the holy land, but he attracted natural disasters, so he was relocated atop this isolated mountain in the Alps.

Gondola up Mt. Pilatus: rooftops near the lower station	Alphorn concert at lunch atop Mt. Pilatus	Alphorn and Alice	Alphorn and Alice
Alice and the beautiful panorama from Mt. Pilatus	Alice and view from Mt. Pilatus	The ibex lives high in the Alps	Cog railway
Boarding the cog train	View from train car	Hiking trail up the mountain	Grass
Meadow	Cloud covered mountain	Hiking trail up the mountain	Across Lake Lucerne
Almost to the bottom	Dragon sign	Stanserhorn, across the lake	Beginning boat tour of the lake
Lakeside farms	Our room at the Schweizerhof Hotel, Lucerne	Entrance to Schweizerhof Hotel, with Alice	Alice and Jim in the lobby
Staircase to 1st floor

Lucerne to Zermatt via the Glacier Express (2013-09-13)

Dying lion	Dying lion	Dying lion	Swiss country houses
Swiss country house	Mountains on the road to Zermatt	Mountains on the road to Zermatt	High peak in the distance
Statue of William Tell	Statue of William Tell	Flag of the canton of Uri	Mountains on the road to Zermatt

A short tour of Altdorf (Old Village)

Alice with bear fountain	Bear statue	Apartments or hotel	White houses are rare
Russian general Suvarov stayed here in 1799.	Commemorative plaque	Swiss house	Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Altar	Pulpit	One of the patron saints	Ceiling
Organ	Stations of the Cross	Mountains on the road to Zermatt	The Glacier Express, interior of car
Waterfall	River along the tracks	Peaks near Zermatt	Trees
Waterfall	Peaks along our route	Peaks near Zermatt	Glacier
Trees

Atop Gornergrat (2013-09-14)

Gornergrat is a mountain near Zermatt. A cog railway runs to an observation area atop this mountain.

Matterhorn from Zermatt	Alice with Breithorn	Jim and Alice with Breithorn	Jim and Alice with Matterhorn
The Matterhorn (4478m)	Liskamm (4527m)	Lenticular clouds over Dufourspitze (4634m)	Looking back to the Rhone valley
Mountains to the North	The Matterhorn (4478m)	Alice with Matterhorn	Jim and Alice with Matterhorn
Alice with Dufourspitze	Grenz-glacier between Dufourspitze and Liskamm	Darkening lenticular clouds over Dufourspitze (4634m)	Jim, Alice, Rita Wong, Dr. Bill Wong
Jim, Alice, Rita Wong, Dr. Bill Wong	Swartze (black) and Breithorn glaciers	Fuji Film advertisement with both Taiwan and PRC flags	Alice with Willi and location sign