Marlin Lum’s Simplon Pass Switzerland Photo Essay

In 2005 while working with Cultural Heritage Imaging and monastery chanoine Jean-Pierre Voutaz, Archiviste for the Order of the Grand-St-Bernard at the Simplon Hospice in Switzerland’s Simplon Pass, Marlin Lum took these photographs of the local landscape and its environs.

Electrum Magazine is proud to feature stunning photographs of our own Marlin Lum in this inaugural issue as our first photo essay.

simplon_pass_with_peaks — The Simplon Pass with peaks looking eastward above the Simplon Hospice

simplon_hospice_from_above — Looking down on the Simplon Hospice along the Simplon Pass road

simplon_pass_saddle — Looking back north to the Upper Rhone Valley from near the hospice

symbol_hospice_simplon — The Simplon Hospice seal-logo

simplon_pass_house_exterior — Exterior of a Simplon Pass house