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National Geographic : 1961 Jan
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Freshly Fallen Ammunition Triggers a Snowball Fight At first glance Zermatt appears as up-to-date as tomorrow. Neon lights blaze along the Street. Glass-fronted shops dis play exciting sports fashions. Hotels and pensions offer every luxury; one has installed an indoor swimming pool. But other sections of the village re main unchanged from medie val times. These barns, which store feed for livestock, stand on a crooked lane no wider than a path. Cows and sheep live out the winter in stone-walled cells beneath the sheds. Many a Zermatt boy will never have to tend the animals A fountain made from a hollow tree spouts refreshment for sheep that gave his grandparents a at Winkelmatten. Skiers coming from Riffelberg often drink here. living. Each year the ski school accepts 10 to 20 teen-agers for training as instructors. Sum mer offers jobs as porters on climbing expeditions. Cows go for a rare winter's walk along the Street. Cooped in stables much of the year, cattle romp like colts when they finally return to green pastures on the mountain slopes in late spring. KODACHROME(UPPER) AND HS EKTACHROMES© NATIONALGEOGRAPHICSOCIETY
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