The exhibition at this museum and kennels (with some 30 dogs to see) on the Col du Grand St Bernard tells the complete story of the mountain pass, snowed in for up to six months of the year and so perilous that monks established a hospice on the pass in the 11th century to provide spiritual succour and to rescue travellers lost in the snow. And so the legend of the St Bernard dog was born, as they frequently uncovered and rescued lost souls buried in the snow.
