About Love Zermatt
Who writes Love Zermatt, why it exists, and how an independent editorial field guide to the car-free Matterhorn village is put together.
- ✓Love Zermatt is an independent editorial field guide to the car-free Matterhorn village — not affiliated with the commune, the cantons of Valais, or any lift company or tourism board.
- ✓Every guide is organised by altitude and checked against primary sources: the cog to Gornergrat at 3,089 m, the Five Lakes loop, the published lift status before a windy day on the glacier.
- ✓We earn no commission and run no affiliate links — there is nothing to buy here, and every recommendation is editorial.
An independent field guide, organised by altitude
Love Zermatt is an editorial field guide to Zermatt, Switzerland — the Horu standing 4,478 m above a village at 1,608 m, the 1898 Gornergrat cog, the Five Lakes Walk and the Stellisee reflection, the three ski sectors and the Cervinia crossing into Italy. We organise the valley the way you actually move through it: not by street address but by station height on the Höhenleiter, with one eye always on the weather and the lift board.
We are independent. We are not affiliated with the Gemeinde Zermatt, Zermatt Tourism, Zermatt Bergbahnen, the Gornergrat Bahn or any hotel, restaurant or guide we write about, and we take no commission on anything we recommend. When a detail can change between visits — a timetable, a pass price, whether the top is open — we link the official source so you can confirm it yourself before you ride.
Who writes it
Guides are compiled and maintained by The Love Zermatt editorial team. Compiled and maintained by the Love Zermatt editorial team from official tourism boards, lift and rail operator timetables, and public data. Guides are reviewed and updated regularly. We don't accept payment for inclusion.
If something here is out of date — a changed shuttle time, a closed terrace at Findeln, a renamed lift — or you know a quiet corner of the valley we have missed, we would genuinely like to hear it.