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But Zermatt’s compromise with the alpine garden may be the right solution.

Inside the fences an alpine garden – Europe’s highest - has been created; narrow walkways allow visitors to take a closer look at the flowers, with QR codes explaining what they are.

As a child, Sandra used to explore the remnants of the alpine garden and hothouses once so loved by Ellen.

Walking through the meadow, exploring the alpine garden, losing myself in the masterful perennial borders and just wandering in the woods, I reconnected with familiar seasonal markers and left with a clear head.

When his seven-year-old daughter Olivia, my mum’s older sister, died suddenly from measles encephalitis, he spent many weekends with his other children planting a detailed alpine garden on her grave.