After you wander the town, however, there are plenty of hiking trails on the mountain. A great-if-difficult trek is the Zermatt - Matterhorn Glacier Trail. It's a 14-mile loop from Zermatt ...

For a closer view, sleek cable cars whisk you up to Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, a plush facility surrounded by hiking trails and hosting an excellent restaurant with predictably breathtaking vistas.

Sanders, 23, spent six nights trapped on a glacier ... the sledding trails on Christmas Eve 1999 when a huge storm slammed into the side of the mountain near the famed Matterhorn.