page_title: The Amazing Race 18
section_title: Leg 10 (Switzerland)
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 18 / Race summary / Leg 10 (Switzerland)
caption_attribution_description: hdr matterhorn Zermatt
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 18 is the eighteenth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 18 featured eleven teams of two – each returning from a previous edition for the first time since Season 11 – in a race around the world for a $1 million prize.
  The eighteenth cycle started on Sunday, February 20, 2011. It aired on CBS in the United States on Sunday nights at 8:00 pm ET/PT with the two-hour season finale on May 8, 2011. The show is hosted by Phil Keoghan.
  Sisters LaKisha "Kisha" and Jennifer "Jen" Hoffman were the winners of this edition of the Race and became the second straight all-female team to win the American edition of The Amazing Race.
context_section_description: Airdate: May 1, 2011
  Zermatt (Air Rescue Helicopter Port)
    Swiss Alps (Matterhorn Glacier)
   Swiss Alps (Matterhorn Glacier) to Riffelalp (Riffelalp Resort)
   (Gornergratbahn) Riffelalp (Riffelalp Railway Station) to Zermatt (Zermatt Railway Station)
  Zermatt (Le Petit Cervin) 
  Zermatt (Chalet Gädi – Swiss Cabin) 
  In this leg's Detour, teams chose between two mountain rescue tasks: Search and Rescue. In Search, teams used a set of avalanche beacons to search the Matterhorn Glacier for a dummy buried in the snow. They then had to dig out the whole dummy before they could receive their next clue. In Rescue, teams had to use a special hoisting device to rescue a mountaineer trapped in a crevasse. One team member had to lower his or her teammate into the crevasse so they could attach a carabiner to the mountaineer. The teammate at the top then had to raise their partner back to the surface and then work together to bring up the rescued mountaineer, who would give them their next clue.
  In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to make a Travelocity Roaming Gnome out of Swiss chocolate. First, they had to decorate a chocolate mold with colored chocolate. Once the mold was properly decorated, the mold would be filled with chocolate and the team member had to bury it in the snow outside for 30 minutes in order to harden the chocolate. They then removed the gnome from the mold and covered up imperfections with more colored chocolate. Once the head chocolatier approved the gnome, teams would receive a real Roaming Gnome and their next clue.
  Additional tasks
  At the Air Rescue Helicopter Port, teams had to sign up for a helicopter flight to their next location, each leaving at five-minute intervals. Before they left on their flight, they would receive their next clue for the Detour before being flown onto the Matterhorn.
  After completing the Detour, teams had to take a helicopter to Riffelalp ski resort and take a train down the mountain back to Zermatt to find their next clue.
  After the Roadblock, teams had to travel by foot to the Pit Stop at Swiss Cabin in Chalet Gädi.
caption: Teams traveled to the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps where they participated in mountain rescue-themed Detour tasks.
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