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Matterhorn: Matterhorn, First Ascent of the Matterhorn, Timeline of Climbing the Matterhorn, PIC Tyndall, Hrnli Hut, Picco Muzio(English)

Matterhorn: Matterhorn, First Ascent of the Matterhorn, Timeline of Climbing the Matterhorn, PIC Tyndall, Hrnli Hut, Picco Muzio(English)

          
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Matterhorn, First Ascent of the Matterhorn, Timeline of Climbing the Matterhorn, Pic Tyndall, Hrnli Hut, Picco Muzio, Solvay Hut. Excerpt: The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Gustave Dor The first ascent of the Matterhorn took place in 1865. It followed a long series of attempts by Edward Whymper and Jean-Antoine Carrel to reach the summit. The first successful expedition, composed of seven men, started from Zermatt on July 13 and gained the summit on the 14th, shortly ahead of an Italian expedition that took place on the other side. Four members of the expedition died on the descent. Only Whymper and the Taugwalder guides returned back alive to Zermatt. They were later accused of having betrayed their companions by cutting the rope when they fell on the north face, but the inquiry found no proof of this and they were all acquitted. Background and preparations Timeline of climbing the Matterhorn In the summer of 1860, Edward Whymper, an athletic, twenty-year-old English artist, visited the Alps for the first time. He had been hired by a London publisher to make sketches and engravings of the scenic mountains along the border of Switzerland and Italy . He was soon interested in mountaineering and decided to attempt the yet unconquered Matterhorn . Whymper soon found that Jean-Antoine Carrel, an Italian guide from the Valtournanche, also had ambitions to be the first to reach the summit of the Matterhorn, and had already made several attempts to climb the mountain. In the years 1861-1865 both made several attempts by the south-west ridge together but became progressively rivals, Carrel patriotically believing that a native Italian like himself and not an Englishman like Whymper should be the first to set foot on the summit. The south face. The first attempts took place on...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155830377
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 91 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155830377
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Matterhorn, First Ascent of the Matterhorn, Timeline of Climbing the Matterhorn, PIC Tyndall, Hrnli Hut, Picco Muzio
  • Width: 229 mm


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