The first man to climb the Matterhorn, who was haunted by the death of his climbing companions during the attempt, will be commemorated with a blue plaque to be unveiled on Friday at his home in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

150 years ago a group of seven mountaineers led by Edward Whymper became the first to scale the peak that lies between Switzerland and Italy. Four members of the team died on the descent causing an ...

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 ...

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.

Switzerland is marking the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of its most famous mountain. The Matterhorn was first climbed on 14 July 1865 by English climber Edward Whymper. It was an event that ...