Gornergrat
Gornergrat, 3920 Zermatt, Switzerland
Phone: 41 027 921 47 11
About
The
Gornergrat
is a rocky ridge of the
Pennine Alps
, overlooking the
Gorner Glacier
south of
Zermatt
in
Switzerland
. It can be reached from Zermatt by the
Gornergrat rack railway
, the highest open-air railway in Europe. Between the
Gornergrat railway station
(3,090 m) and the summit is the
Kulm Hotel
(3,120 m) hosting the new Project "Stellarium Gornergrat" and until 2010 the Kölner Observatorium für SubMillimeter Astronomie
KOSMA
and before that (until 2005) the
Gornergrat Infrared Telescope
.