Apparently, for several thousand years, farmers in the alps have moved livestock to alpine pastures as summer approaches. In three months the tradition of celebrating the move up, and then in fall, different traditions about the move back to town. Of course, in Zermatt there is also the daily movement of the goat herd, up and down the mountain.
https://journal.alpsandmeters.com/journal/2019/9/17/the-history-of-the-almabtrieb
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