I clambered (although it was more of a big step) up onto this Minihorn and grasped the pointed summit in one hand, leaning off it like King Kong batting planes away from the Empire State Building. Did ...

But one summit remained unclaimed in the Alps and Edward Whymper was determined to be the man to conquer ... Douglas Hadow and guides Old Peter and Young Peter Taugwalder to ascend the Matterhorn.

Length: 20.4 miles (16 miles round-trip to Ice Lake, 4.4 to Matterhorn summit) Climb: 5,517 feet (3,400 feet to Ice Lake, 2,117 to Matterhorn) Open: Mid-July to late September.

New Hempstead: Residents fret about former Matterhorn Nursery future New Hempstead officials say no application has been submitted for the 34-acre site at 227 Summit Park Road ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Three people died on Matterhorn last week in two separate accidents. By chance, a mountain guide filmed one of the victims shortly before the man fell to his death. The guide, Eukeni Soto, was ...

The Matterhorn straddles the Alps border between Italy and Switzerland. Its summit is an incredible 4478 metres above sea level, making it one of the tallest in Europe.

On the southern border with Italy, the pyramid-shaped Matterhorn is a cherished Swiss national icon. First climbed in 1865, the summit is 4,478m above sea level, making it one of the highest ...

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 ...