Monte-Rosa-Hütte near Zermatt

The New Monte-Rosa-Hütte stands in a landscape of ice and rock near Zermatt. Above it tower the highest summits in the Swiss Alps, the Dufourspitze (4634 m) and the Matterhorn (4478 m). Here of all places the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) and the ETH in Zurich decided in 2003 to erect a building that would produce 90?% of its own...