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The most beautiful mountains in the world: from K2 to the Matterhorn and beyond
We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...
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Lost photographs of Edward Whymper's controversial conquest of the Matterhorn summit to be published
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 ...
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How to climb the Matterhorn
The Matterhorn is surely the world’s most iconic peak. Its commanding, isolated position at the head of the valley is unique in the Alps and its claim to being one of the world’s most beautiful ...
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New route on the North Face of the Matterhorn
Swiss mountaineer Jean Troillet and the Frenchmen Martial Dumas and Jean-Yves Fredriksen have made the first ascent of "Sébastien Gay" (600m ABO), a new difficult route up the North Face of the ...