For “one crowded hour of glorious life” in the summer of 1865, a British engraver named Edward Whymper was on top of the world. He’d conquered the unconquerable Matterhorn, besting his rivals, and now ...
IT has often been said that the British invented mountain climbing. This is not really so if one means that the British were the first to conceive the idea of climbing mountains for some reason other ...
1. At 4,478 meters (14,692 feet), the Matterhorn is only Western Europe's 12th-highest peak, but it is taller than Mt. Whitney, the highest summit in the Lower 48 of the U.S., by about 187 feet. 2.
It should have been a triumph of European co-operation. A hundred and fifty years ago this month, four English travellers and three Continental guides (a Frenchman and two Swiss) set off from the ...
From 10 to 19 July 2015, the Matterhorn, Valtournenche and Valle d'Aosta invite everyone to take part in the ten-day celebration of the 150th anniversary of the legendary first two ascents of the ...
The Night of the Matterhorn. On 16th July, the eve of the conquest along the streets of the centre of Breuil-Cervinia, a festival that will continue all through the night. A symbolic mountain, the ...
On my two previous trips to Switzerland's tiny-but-touristy Zermatt, I failed to catch a glimpse of the glorious Matterhorn mountain that draws so many to the burg at its base for a peek at the peak.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results