Swiss Peak to Grow to Lure Climbers
Local officials plan to add a few feet to a Swiss mountain spurned by climbers because it is not high enough, the Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported.
“This is not a joke at all, we are absolutely serious about this,” village council president German Anthamatten told the paper.
At 3,998 meters (13,119 feet), the Fletschhorn just fails to make the exclusive club of a string of higher peaks in the Valais region known as “4,000ers,” such as the 4,478-meter (14,691-foot) Matterhorn.
“A surprising number of mountain climbers decide against attempting the Fletschhorn because it is just a few meters short of 4,000,” Anthamatten told the newspaper.
He was quoted as saying his council aimed to rectify that with a $72,000 plan to add some rocks to the top to take it up those few crucial meters.
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