Europe, 1963



Although I had enough money to do a guided climb of the Matterhorn, after I arrived in Zermatt I learnt – as I recorded in my diary – that there was “too much snow on [the] Matterhorn for climbing now.” The weather, though, looked promising, so I spent Sunday, 25 August, and Monday, 26 August, going on long hikes. I took this photograph of the Matterhorn while I was on my way to