A vertigo-inducing video showing climbers on a ridge at the top of the Matterhorn, one the highest summits in the Alps, has captivated viewers on TikTok. The dizzying views from nearly 15,000 feet ...

British mountaineer Kenton Cool has defended his decision to take Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam to the summit of the Matterhorn, despite the 29-year-old old falling ill with severe altitude sickness.

The 14,690-foot Matterhorn towers above Zermatt, a tiny but hugely touristed town of roughly 6,000 people nestled at the dead ...

A veteran who lost both his legs while fighting in Iraq has become the first above-the-knee double amputee to summit the Matterhorn. Neil Heritage, 39, along with friend Mark Hooks, 46, both from ...

Extraordinary coincidences led to a misunderstanding about an accident on the Matterhorn. Yet the lesson remains: Mountaineering is no joke, the Matterhorn is a serious endeavor, and mistakes ...

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 Matterhorn ...

Ultrarunner Fernanda Maciel completed a stunning mountaineering double in the Alps on August 20 when, in a single day, she set a new female Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Gran Paradiso in Italy and ...

A short video clip taken by Hervé Barmasse on the summit of the Matterhorn during the first winter enchainment of the 4 Matterhorn ridges on Thursday 13 March 2014. "What does walking on the top of ...

The Matterhorn appears as an immovable, massive mountain that has towered over the landscape near Zermatt for thousands of years. A study just published in the ...