Race to the Summit. In the mid-1800s, two capable, deeply ambitious men were desperate to become the first to stand on the summit of the Matterhorn: Jean-Antoine Carrel and Edward Whymper.

In 1865, in what is now referred to as "the golden days of Alpinism", English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator and author, Edward Whymper, completed the first ascent of the Matterhorn, in the ...

He reached the summit of Matterhorn in three hours and 15 minutes, and the descent took the same amount of time. A screenshot from a viral TikTok video of climbers balancing on a ridge at the ...

This Video from Matterhorn’s Summit Might Make You Barf. by Michael Walsh. Sep 22 2020 • 6:38 AM. Heights never bothered me until I saw that movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

On Matterhorn, the remains of a British climber were found in 2013, more than three decades after he was reported missing. About two years later, the bodies of two Japanese climbers were also ...

“The Matterhorn attracted me simply by its grandeur,” wrote one pretender, British climber Edward Whymper. “It was considered to be the most thoroughly inaccessible of all mountains, even by ...

DROP MATTERHORN RAILWAY.; Plan of Funicular Line to Summit Stirred Up Cry of Desecration. Share full article. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. July 18, 1909; ...

By my count, and I don’t read German, the Matterhorn has only been skied from the summit twice. Swiss mountaineer André “Dédé” Anzévui made the first descent of the north face of the ...

It is striking and unmistakable, a jagged rock summit perfectly formed like an Egyptian pyramid. And for mountaineers looking for glory in the golden age of alpinism in the mid-1800s, the ...