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Three skiers from Val Gardena, Italy, climbing up the Grenz glacier before dawn
 

looking across the crevasses to the great alpine rock-climb peaks of Zermatt
 

Italian skiers climbing steeper now -- still cold -- with the Dom/Täschhorn + Alphubel peaks beyond
 

on the Zumsteinspitze summit (altitude 4565m) (with statue on stand) looking south to the "Capanna Margherita" hut on the Signalkuppe summit (4556m) -- where I'm going to next
 

looking west from the Signalkuppe to the Liskamm -- with skiers below still climbing up and around
 

As I ski down I meet skiers still climbing up, near the Parrotspitze -- note ski tracks descending from right, coming from the Gnifetti hut in Italy, over the Ludwigshöhe
 

giant ski run down the Grenz glacier . . .
 

. . . with a variety of slopes and scenery . . .
 

. . . especially under the northeast face of the Liskamm