I stopped over in Geneva on the way to the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships in Milan, and took the train to and from Italy. On the way back home, I took a detour for an overnight stop in the mountain resort of Zermatt. I had several reasons for doing so: at work, I was about to retire a server named "zermatt"; I had been reading about Swiss railways and found that Zermatt is home to the Gornergratbahn, which is not only a rack railway, but one of the few railways anywhere with "three-phase" overhead power; and as a teenager I had read Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, an important piece of which takes place on Monte Rosa, a massif on the Swiss-Italian border which overlooks to the top of the Gornergratbahn. Oh, and there was also that whole Matterhorn thing. I didn't end up taking any pictures of the charming, car-free but very touristy village, for reasons I don't recall, so this gallery is just a few pictures of the train and a lot of pictures of the Alps.