Awoke about 8 am. The humidity within the tent turned to ice inside the tent. When I ruse up it came snowing down on me. We had breakfast on a bench in front of the church with a fine view of the Matterhorn. At 10:30 we took the train up to Gornergrat. Took some pictures and admired the enormous expanses of rock covered with new snow. Warren decided to stay on top and get a picture of the horn at sunrise so I went down and packed up. Left Zermatt on the tiny mud road down to Visp. It took me three hours to get to Visp and I got to Sion at dark. Went to Major Digier's home and had dinner. Wrote and retired.
Mileage Zermatt to Sion: 80 km
Food 1.00
Train 5.00
Postcards .75
[I'm not sure how I met Major Digier, but it could have been a connection to my hometown in Lawton-Ft Sill Oklahoma. The Army's Artillery and Missile Center was located there, and in the 1960's there were extensive exchanges of officers from Allied countries who came to Ft Sill for training. We hosted many of them in our home.]
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