Il cimitero degli alpinisti
In the cemetery around Chiesa Vecchia in Macugnaga, at the bottom of Monte Rosa (and the other size from Zermatt), there is such a number of alpinists and guides buried there that the cemetery is called the cemetery of the alpinists. A memorial recalls deaths of local guides and climbers on the different routes of the Monte Rosa group [there is no Monte Rosa peak per se but a collection of 15 tops above 4000m]. Plus crosses and plaques on the church wall for those whose bodies were not recovered, according to a local guide. (Which sounds strange given that these are not the Himalayas! Unless these are glacier-related deaths…]
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August 22, 2017 at 11:28 pm
I didn’t know that they use the spanish word “cemeterio” instead of the italian word “cimitero”!
August 23, 2017 at 8:29 am
Pardon my French!, it should be cimitero degli alpinisti indeed, I should have checked…