ZURICH (Reuters) - Zermatt has been forced to withdraw an invitation to 10 Nepalese sherpas to help restore trails around the Matterhorn as part of the 150th anniversary of the summit's conquest, after a bureaucratic tangle left them with no entry permits into Switzerland.
The snag scuppers plans by Zermatt officials who had hoped to showcase the historic local ties to Nepal, which had help from Swiss air rescue to develop a similar system in the Himalayas.
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