Word: zermatt
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DIED. ULRICH INDERBINEN, 103, legendary Swiss mountain guide known as "King of the Alps," who summited the 4,478-m-high Matterhorn some 370 times; in Zermatt, Switzerland. Inderbinen, who retired at 95, once said he was "the third most photographed attraction in Zermatt, after the Matterhorn and the goats...
...abandoned when Manser's campaign office, the Basel-based Bruno Manser Foundation, received a call from the Malaysian embassy warning him not to try. "Somehow they already knew exactly what we were planning," says Christinet, who now works as a mountain guide in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt...
...Christinet was also central to one of Manser's most futile?and dangerous?"actions," the descent of the 2.7-km-long funicular cable in Zermatt in 1996. The two men reached speeds of 140 km/h while hanging onto homemade riders constructed out of steel wheels and ball bearings. There was no clear purpose other than lodging a vague protest against global warming and the melting of glaciers, says Roger Graf, who was administering the Bruno Manser Foundation at the time. And the only media present was a Luxembourg TV station, which showed footage of the attempt without any explanatory commentary...
...Zermatt action was an apt precursor to Manser's last stunt, a 1999 flight above the Sarawak capital of Kuching in a motorized hang glider. It was another desperate move by a man who was increasingly becoming irrelevant. His numerous letters to the Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud pleading reconciliation or offering to fund a mobile dental clinic for the Penan were ignored...
...enjoying the freshly packed powder at Zermatt when the most interesting woodland creature caught my eye. Unfortunately I also caught a tree trunk with the side of my neck, breaking my clavicle...