Chamonix cemetery
Guide
Photo: AntonyB · CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeSightAllow 20–40 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A quiet hillside cemetery facing the glaciers, where many mountain guides and climbers lie, their graves marked with ice axes, ropes and carved peaks.
A brief history
Edward Whymper, the first to climb the Matterhorn, died in Chamonix in 1911 and is buried here.
Tips
- Best time
- A calm late afternoon; please be respectful
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 20–40 min
- Free days
- Always free
- Hours
- Usually open daily in daylight (check)
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