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My Unforgettable Day Miles Above Switzerland - Matterhorn Glacier Paradise / Cog Railway & Cable Car

Date: December 11, 2025 Duration: 35m 16s
Matterhorn Glacier Paradise
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0:05 Welcome everyone.
0:05 Adam the Woo here. As the recording of
0:08 this Wednesday, December 10th, 2025, I'm
0:12 standing on my balcony here in the hotel
0:14 I'm staying at in Zerat or Zerat,
0:18 Switzerland,
0:19 and my eyes are looking
0:23 at the Matterhorn because I am going up
0:26 that direction today. Spin this around.
0:31 View from my hotel.
0:38 Look
0:38 at that nice clear day. I've heard that
0:41 sometimes visitors will stay in this
0:44 village at the base of the impressive
0:47 mountain and they don't really get to
0:49 see it because of haze,
0:52 clouds, mist, etc. So, I consider myself
0:56 very lucky. It's a clear day.
0:58 and I'm going to head up there via train
1:00 and possibly other transportation
1:02 devices. I'm not hiking it.
1:06 Also, the third man on the mountain. I
1:08 was watching it last night. It's a Walt
1:10 Disney film
1:12 and they show so many great angles of
1:15 the Matter Horn. The real Matter Horn,
1:18 not the Disneyland one. The Disneyland
1:20 was built a couple months after the film
1:22 came out. Fun fact.
1:25 But it's a great movie. It's just lots
1:26 of scenic views of every angle of that
1:29 impressive mountain. I'm going to get
1:31 going. I'm inviting you,
1:34 yes you, to join me. I'm also double
1:37 bundled up, shall you? And I am so happy
1:40 that there is snow on the ground. Thick
1:43 snow on the ground. Really get into the
1:45 holiday spirit.
1:47 I should be back home
1:49 about a week or so, give or take a day.
1:52 I should be starting to make my way back
1:54 home in a weekish
1:58 and I'll be home in time for Christmas.
2:01 I'll be home for Christmas. I think
2:02 that's a I think that's a song.
2:06 This is also a big skiing community. I
2:08 will not be getting on any skis. It
2:10 probably not end well for me. I'm not
2:13 going to be hiking the mountain,
2:16 but I will take other modes of
2:18 transportation to get up there. Oh,
2:19 yeah. I'm really excited about this.
2:22 And I don't know if it's cuz I'm going
2:23 to be going up towards the peak, but
2:27 it's looking extra magnificent this
2:30 morning.
2:32 Got to be completely honest. I've been
2:34 to Disneyland so many times. Been a
2:36 passholder since 2015
2:38 when I first moved out there.
2:41 Lived in the LA Orange County area for a
2:43 number of years. Went on the attraction
2:46 Matterhorn, which is based on the peak.
2:49 I'm going to be heading upwards towards
2:52 and I'll never go on that ride again,
2:54 that attraction again without thinking
2:57 of being here. I have a new appreciation
3:00 and new understanding
3:02 of what Walt when he visited here saw.
3:06 And as the story goes, he evidently sent
3:08 a postcard from this village to the
3:11 Imagineer who was in the head Imagineer
3:14 at the time
3:16 and said, "Build this." At least that's
3:19 how the story goes. Build this.
3:23 And they did.
3:25 Bob Ger worked on it, too. And from what
3:28 I from what I heard, it's the first
3:31 coaster of its type that once you're at
3:33 the top, what the top of the liftill,
3:36 everything else is just gravity.
3:38 And now a lot of carnivals and fairs and
3:40 other theme parks use that use that. But
3:43 I believe, don't quote me on this, but I
3:44 believe the believe the Matterhorn
3:47 attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim was
3:49 the first to do that.
3:52 I got a cup of Joe coffee as the snow
3:55 taxi goes by. This is a carless
3:57 community, by the way. There are no
3:58 automobiles allowed here. Just the
4:00 little
4:02 vehicles that go around. They got a
4:04 coffee here from a place called Cups.
4:06 You can see there's the mountain on the
4:08 side there. This is their large. This is
4:09 not their small. This is their large.
4:13 So,
4:14 I don't know if it'll get me properly
4:16 caffeinated, but it's a start.
4:18 I've noticed a lot of places you go that
4:20 aren't well that aren't Starbucks, let
4:23 me just say the word, don't have large
4:25 coffees, which kind of got me hooked on
4:29 going there. So,
4:32 with these, you got to drink what, three
4:34 of maybe four or five of these makes up
4:36 a vinty, right? Either way, cheers. Nice
4:40 little stroll over to the station where
4:42 I'm going to be taking a open air
4:45 vehicle and getting some good views
4:59 I realized yesterday I overused
4:59 the word matter horn, so I'm trying to
5:01 not say it as much this time, but there
5:03 it is on the cup.
5:09 Eh, I'll probably I'll probably use it
5:09 without even thinking about it. I
5:10 probably said it
5:12 318 times yesterday. It's just a rough
5:15 estimate. I'll probably say it more
5:18 today. So, my apologies for saying
5:20 Matterhorn so many times. If you look
5:22 closely, you can see the cross that's up
5:24 there on that hillside. Wow. Mountain
5:26 side. Saw it last night illuminated from
5:28 a different perspective, but there it is
5:31 under daylight. Well, shadowed out
5:34 daylight for the mountains. Yeah, those
5:36 are the only size vehicles. Notice how
5:38 narrow and rectangular they are. It's
5:40 the only ones.
5:42 All that buildup of snow.
5:45 That's the only ones allowed
5:48 here in town. No automobiles allowed
5:51 other than that. I wonder if I brought
5:52 Mini Marge here. Probably they probably
5:54 let her roam the streets. Some say I'm
5:57 underdressed. I think Santa is extremely
6:00 underdressed for these weather
6:01 conditions.
6:09 He's got to be beat. All right, so this
6:10 is what I'm taking.
6:12 First activity of the day, the Gornrat
6:14 railway. Best view
6:18 of the you know what.
6:24 It's a I think it's a 30-minut ride, 33
6:24 minute ride from what I was reading
6:26 online. Like must be the next departure
6:28 times. And there could possibly
6:32 kind of going into this blind
6:35 be some stops on the way up that I'll be
6:37 able to get off and get some photos and
6:40 video, etc. I purchased my tickets
6:42 online last night. All right, this is
6:46 the train that I'm going to be boarding.
6:48 So, it has two regular two regular train
6:49 tracks like a normal train, but then it
6:51 also has a chain that pulls up the side
6:55 of the ascent.
6:58 I was reading up on the specifics of
7:00 this train. It is a coged cog wheel
7:03 train, which means that in between the
7:08 normal rails that you would have is a
7:10 tooth tooth rack. That would be my
7:13 definition of the chain pulling this up
7:16 to the top of the hill.
7:38 So, I'm not sure the exact meaning, but
7:38 this is said to be one of the highest
7:40 open air trains
7:43 that that exists, except it's not open
7:45 air.
7:47 I don't know what their meaning of open
7:48 air is. This is enclosed with glass.
7:51 Perplexing.
7:54 But it is stated that it is an open air
7:57 train.
7:59 >> Maybe it means because of the stops
8:01 going up and down that you have open air
8:04 looking at the mountain.
8:31 Oh, some compartments have windows that
8:31 you can pull down. Hence, open air. That
8:35 explains it.
8:48 All right. This is awesome. It's looking
8:48 out the opposite side.
11:06 That sun is bouncing off the snow. It's
11:06 like a mirror.
11:25 Dang, this is awesome.
11:25 Oh my god. Oh. Ah. Unreal. Unreal.
11:42 This is something I never thought I
11:42 would say. Here I am saying it.
11:54 The brooms are warning anyone to not
11:54 stick your head too far out of the
11:56 window.
12:15 >> Oh, that's cool. See the skiers going
12:16 down. See the ski lift.
12:18 Man, if you're a skier, this would be
12:20 perfect.
12:23 Just get off here, get your ski on.
12:31 >> Do you realize the street value of all
12:31 this snow?
12:55 Your mama was a snowblower.
12:55 >> Man, I'm giving all kind of 80s
12:56 references. Two in a row. Two in a row.
13:20 >> Final stop,
13:23 >> man. Imagine bringing all the skis all
13:25 the way up here,
13:27 >> skiing down this entire mountain. Feel
13:32 like I'm way too uncoordinated for that.
13:34 >> Ladies and gentlemen,
13:36 >> a lot of people go up here to ski doing
13:38 the oneway trip up.
14:05 What false move? You could just start
14:05 sliding down that pike. This is as far
14:07 as I'll walk. I mean, you just get to
14:09 the edge. Look at this. It's just
14:12 slipping and sliding.
14:17 And they're about They're all about to
14:17 take this thing on.
15:12 >> All right, got to make my way back down.
15:12 the scenic views on the way back down.
15:13 Also,
15:15 try to catch that guy.
16:09 Oh, it's like a little church building.
16:09 Well, the reason I'm saying that it
16:11 appears to be a little steep on it.
16:47 Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes
16:47 we will arrive at Serat.
16:49 >> That was awesome.
16:51 All right, I have booked a ticket for
16:53 the gondola.
16:55 99 Franks I believe it was, which is
16:58 $110, $120. Yeah, the stuff is pricey,
17:04 but I've never been here. 51 years old.
17:07 Never been here. Probably never be here
17:08 again. Got to do it. And now about 3/4
17:12 of a mile. Just under 3/4 of a mile walk
17:15 up to the gondola station.
17:27 Oh, look from here.
17:27 Got to look closely, but up there
17:28 through the woods, you see the train
17:30 ascending the one I was just on.
17:34 Might get a better view when it reaches
17:37 right about there.
17:47 Can't even hear it from here. There it
17:47 goes
18:02 All right. Scan yourself in through
18:02 these little mechanisms. Just like that.
18:05 Opens up.
18:12 This just looks like the Disney
18:12 Skyliner, right?
18:14 Oh, there's not even a worker boarding
18:16 anyone.
18:18 You just board
18:20 at your own pace.
18:23 The Matterhorn Express.
18:29 That one has a guest logo on it. I think
18:29 I want to get on the Matter Horn
18:30 Expressway.
18:41 Got to get a photo of it,
18:41 man. There's not There's not one worker.
18:45 Nothing like WDW.
18:48 Actually, these look a little smaller.
18:51 Just a slight bit smaller. Oh man.
18:55 This is going to be good.
18:57 Who would have guessed?
19:00 I would have made it here.
19:03 Happy to be here. Happy to be here. And
19:05 that is what I'm hoping to get close to
19:08 for the second time. Once on a train,
19:10 once on a cog train, and once on a
19:14 gondola similar to WDW
19:18 Skylighter.
19:25 Woo! Oh, yeah. That's good. Same
19:25 same bumpiness. Oh, let's go.
19:29 This is awesome. I almost heard the the
19:32 jingle. The Skylliner jingle. I'm so
19:34 used to being on these at WW.
19:51 >> Really good view of the town below.
19:51 Going up up up
19:54 on the Matterhorn Gondola Express.
20:04 To be honest, it's not as cold as I
20:04 thought it would be. I could have got
20:05 away with the one layer, not putting the
20:07 double double hoodie on, even when it
20:10 was all the way at the top. Now, I'll
20:12 I'll give an update when I get to the
20:14 top of here. But up at the train ride,
20:17 it wasn't as bad as I thought it would
20:18 be. I like the cold though. So,
20:22 next
20:32 >> I think I'm about to reach a pinnacle
20:32 here.
20:50 Coming up over a hump. Oh.
20:50 Oh, I thought it was going to be a
20:52 really grand view. It's still kind of
20:53 obscured. That's pretty good. That's
20:55 pretty good. Look at that. Go check out
20:58 the snowcat.
21:01 Wendy,
21:02 I got a big You got a big surprise
21:05 coming for you.
21:08 Go check out the snowcat.
21:10 Go check it out.
21:13 I like the higher up I get. can still
21:16 see the town down below.
21:33 >> it looks as if I get off here. 9,642 ft.
21:33 And I continue or maybe I am at Glacier
21:37 Paradise.
21:45 Am I here?
21:45 Or do I keep going up?
22:04 Oh no, I keep going up.
22:04 Oh, I I board a different ride vehicle.
22:07 Oh,
22:09 okay.
22:21 Look at those things.
22:21 I get on one of those.
22:28 >> Those things split down with a straight
22:28 window. That's where we just
22:59 >> Better game. Yeah.
22:59 moving the two
23:08 >> feel
23:35 All right. Now, I'm glad I layered up.
23:35 12,700
23:37 and 40 ft. I got a little Christmas tree
23:40 up here.
23:42 Sheep.
23:48 I got to be completely honest. I can
23:48 definitely feel the altitude. I'm a
23:52 definitely can feel the the altitude.
23:55 Little light at it. Look
24:29 Oh man, that's pure ice.
24:29 >> Pure eyes.
25:14 Notice how all the flowers are frozen
25:14 solid inside chunks of ice
25:47 Oh man, ice sculptures. Yeah,
25:47 >> I wasn't expecting this.
25:48 >> I just thought I was going to get a good
25:50 gondola ride.
25:53 >> Wow.
26:42 I saw this
26:42 already.
26:53 empty.
26:53 >> They carved all this out to get to the
26:55 glacier.
26:57 Funnest thing about I went to the gift
26:58 shop, a little gift shop, and I bought
27:00 something pretty cool. I'll show
27:01 momentarily. They have a restroom in
27:03 there, and they charge you two Franks to
27:05 use the facilities. Come all the way up
27:07 here, charge you two bucks. Had to take
27:09 a lift down
27:12 to the glacier walkthrough with all the
27:14 ice sculptures. Now I'm getting on
27:16 another lift to the panorama platform.
27:21 I don't know if it goes up or down, but
27:23 waiting on the lift. All right, I am
27:26 >> got to be the best view you can get.
27:30 >> Got a Bible verse here upon getting off
27:33 the elevator. Three levels up from where
27:35 I was the glacier section.
27:46 >> The wind is blowing pretty good up here.
27:46 Shift in direction now.
27:53 >> Unbelievable.
27:53 >> My apologies if the wind
27:56 >> are a little intense up here.
27:58 >> Cupping
28:01 >> cupping over the mic a little bit.
28:09 >> Got Jesus on the cross. Mencape or
28:09 >> bridge?
28:27 >> Wow,
28:29 I am just beyond words to be up here.
28:39 Take a little look here. You got the
28:39 Matter Horn, 4,478.
28:47 >> Then you have some of the other peaks.
28:47 >> Not to be excluded from awesomeness.
28:54 >> This part of the
28:54 >> vertical or horizon.
28:55 >> Flip it. Flip like this.
28:57 >> No, just just
29:00 cupping over the mic. You can see my
29:01 hand here.
29:31 Unexpected bonuses to gondola rides.
29:31 File this one under that for sure.
30:03 Wow, this feels like a roller coaster
30:03 ride.
30:26 Yeah, way up there I ended up getting at
30:26 the gift shop at the top this cross body
30:29 bag which is pretty cool. Also want to
30:33 show the bank notes that I purchased.
30:36 Not worth anything but
30:40 still pretty cool trying to blow away.
30:42 This is the This is one side. That's the
30:45 other side.
30:47 >> [laughter]
30:53 >> Switzerland's most famous mountain. I
30:53 got a bank note
30:56 with it on there. Put it inside of here.
30:58 I think it's kind of neat, too. The
31:00 inside of the bag. What do you know?
31:03 Good little man horns. What a sports
31:06 that, huh? And I caught the the top
31:09 point or overlook the cross and
31:12 everything just in time cuz it closed at
31:13 4:15.
31:15 Also noticing a lot of the clocks here
31:16 in Switzerland, they basically are just
31:19 oversized watch faces.
31:35 Going down. Going down. Got to hurry.
31:35 Got to hurry.
31:42 Back down the Matter Horn Express.
31:42 Beautiful.
31:43 That is I mean just how often can you be
31:47 in a gondola going down the side of the
31:50 Alps
31:52 and over your shoulder is that
32:13 back in town now.
32:13 Made it back in town. Horsedrawn
32:16 carriages roaming the streets.
32:20 Beautiful. The first woman of the
32:23 Matterhorn.
32:41 Oh, you see this a lot on different
32:42 sculptures where people will touch too
32:43 much and evidently people have rubbed
32:46 the nose of this goat and usually that
32:48 means if a sculpture is faded in one
32:51 spot it means that it's good luck to
32:54 touch that particular spot. You know,
32:56 it's very unusual to come all the way to
32:58 Switzerland and run into a friend. Ricky
33:02 is [laughter] here.
33:03 Yes, I am. And I'm having the time of my
33:06 life.
33:07 >> You know what's interesting? This was
33:09 completely unplanned. The fact that we
33:11 are in the same area, completely nowhere
33:13 near where either of us live at the same
33:15 time. But you're here and I'm here just
33:18 by chance near the Matterhorn.
33:20 >> We booked this like 18 months ago. So,
33:24 the fact that it aligned with your wild
33:26 style is amazing.
33:27 >> And everyone in my comment comment
33:29 section from yesterday was like, "You
33:30 going to meet up with Bricky?" And I met
33:32 up with Bricky who's now doing daily
33:34 vlogs doing Bricky vlogs and Hey Bricky.
33:37 >> Uh the people that watch our videos are
33:39 the best and they're hilarious. Ones
33:40 like Adam the Woo beat you to the mat
33:42 horn like it was cannonball run and we
33:44 were trying to get you before each
33:45 other.
33:45 >> It's not a race.
33:46 >> No, not a race.
33:47 >> I'm curious to see your videos though
33:48 cuz your videos are completely different
33:50 than mine. So I'm interested in seeing
33:51 your take on same
33:53 >> on all of it.
33:54 >> You did the train and we didn't do the
33:55 train and I'm curious.
33:58 What was the best takeaway from today
33:59 from going up going up close to the
34:00 Matter Horn if you had to say?
34:02 >> I I think the thing that hit me the
34:04 hardest was that
34:06 >> obviously the mountain is amazing,
34:08 right? And that Walt brought that back
34:09 to to Anaheim,
34:11 >> but it was the charm of the whole city
34:12 that had to win him over. You know, like
34:14 the mountain doesn't stand by itself.
34:15 It's the charm of everything around you
34:17 that makes it so special.
34:18 >> This is like walking through a theme
34:19 park.
34:20 >> It is. Right.
34:21 >> It is. It is.
34:22 >> It's like a Switzerland Main Street USA.
34:24 >> 100%. It's a fantasy land that just
34:26 keeps going and going and going. Unreal.
34:29 >> Yeah. But check out Hey Bricky. And now
34:31 the new Bricky vlog.
34:33 >> That's right.
34:33 >> How many days you up to now?
34:35 >> Uh, a couple hundred. I I do 100 and
34:38 take a week off cuz I'm lazy.
34:39 >> Okay. You're not lazy. Come on.
34:41 You are far from lazy, man. Check out
34:44 Bricky. Good to see you, man.
34:45 >> You, too, bud.
34:48 >> I'm going to start heading back to my
34:49 hotel now. Last images of the eve.
34:54 of the mighty Matterhorn, which soon
34:57 there won't be any light in the sky.
34:59 Nightfall will have fully reared its
35:02 head. Only a few minutes away from that
35:05 time period and a final look for
35:08 darkness.
35:14 Ah, I love being in this love being in
35:14 this town, this village.