1. Zermatt Climbs

2. July-August 1958
During a driving tour of Europe with Dean Taylor taking train from Visp to Zermatt. Climbers were told to first visit graveyard.

5. Gornergrat, Rifelhorn, Monta Rosa

6. Rifelhorn practice climbing with Eddie Petrig

8. Glacier Ice Fall – Monte Rosa

10. Dean Taylor

12. Charles Mader

16. Eddie Petrig, Dean Taylor, Charles Mader

19. Monte Rosa
Trip was September 14 to 30, 1963 to Geneva then to London to attend meeting at AWRE – Aldermaston.
Monta Rosa climb was 9/18/1963
New York International Airport Sunset

20. Zermatt Train Station and Pollux Hotel No Automobiles

21. Petrig Hotel and view

22. Matterhorn had too much snow for climbing for rest of 1963.

24. Monte Rosa – Second Highest Peak in Alps at 15,203 ft was still climbable.

25. Train to Gornergrat and Riflehorn

26. Trail to Gorner Glacier

27. Monte Rosa had not been climbed for several weeks because of weather and snow hazards.

28. Breithorn from Gorner Glacier

30. Monte Rosa Hutte

31. Monte Rosa Hutte – 9170 ft

32. Toilet overhung Glacier but had great views

33. Matterhorn and Castor from Hutte

34. Bergfurher Eddie Petrig decides to climb
Bergfurher Eddie Petrig decides to climb. Other climbers and guides in the Hutte told him the American could never make the summit that they had not been able to climb for days.

40. The climb to the summit of the Dufourspitze was in clouds on a snow covered ridge with plaques where climbers and guides had fallen. They made interesting reading while on belay. A snow gulley that Petrig was climbing came lose. He called – “I hope you have it.” I called back “I am bombproof”. After the rope stopped his fall he later told me he had wondered as he was falling what American idiom “bombproof” meant.

41. Descent

42. .
Petrig –Damn IT- Why did you stop?
Mader – To take a picture – why are you bitching?
Petrig – Because you stopped in the middle of a snow bridge over that big crevasse.

43. Return at about 4 p.m. Climbers at Hutte met us with hand shaking and hugs. Petrig said “ I told you this old American has climbed more mountains than any of you.”

45. Hikes from Zermatt

49. Ober Rothorn Hike

51. Monte Rosa from Ober Rothorn

52. Rimpfischorn from Ober Rothorn

53. Zinalrothorn and Trift Valley

58. September 9-10, 1971 Matterhorn – 14,688 feet –
Third Trip to Zermatt to climb Matterhorn and this time during climbing season – it was last climbing day of 1971 as snow storm arrived after we returned to hut.
From hut climb took 5 hours up, 4 hours return.

62. Matterhorn Hutte

63. ROUTE

64. Eddie Petrig and Zermatt Friend

65. Charles Mader and Zermatt Local on Matterhorn Summit

66. Charles Mader on Swiss Matterhorn Summit Cross on Italian Summit

67. Weisshorn – looking NW from Matterhorn Summit

68. LOOKING NORTH – ZERMATT - DOM

69. Nadelhorn, Dom, Rimpfischhorn, Ober Rothorn

70. Gornergrat, Rifelhorn, Monte Rosa

71. Monte Rosa, Castor, Pollux, Breithorn, Kleine Matterhorn – Looking East

72. Looking South into Italy and toward Turin

73. Breithorn, Kleine Matterhorn, Theodulgletscher from Matterhorn Summit – Skied it 3/1986

74. 3/1986 Emma Jean and Charles Mader on top of Kleine Matterhorn Gondola

75. Breithorn

77. Breithorn and Kleine Matterhorn

78. Skiing at base of Matterhorn

80. 9/2000