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High-living Swiss Plan to Make a Mountain out of Little Matterhorn

The mountain is already home to the highest cable car in Europe.

From The Guardian -- Interior Design, 9/21/2007

If Heidi were alive today, the likelihood is she would no longer be skipping in the mountains with grandpa's goats, but taking a lift to a cabin-pressurised viewing tower and conference centre in the Alps.


The once untouchable Alps are being turned into a huge and haughty playground for the rich, featuring luxury tower blocks, pyramids, and revolving hotels, as Switzerland's cantons seek to produce ever bigger and better tourist attractions in a bid to outdo each other.


The latest project involves "stocking up" the Klein Matterhorn. Already home to the highest cable car in Europe, the smaller neighbour to the Matterhorn is soon to be topped with a 117 metre steel and glass pyramid which will take it to a height of 4,000 metres.


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