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Should the Matterhorn close? That question arose again last week after at least one anonymous guide told the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger that the mountain was too unstable and therefore too ...

BERLIN — Swiss police said Thursday that they have identified the remains of two Japanese climbers who went missing 45 years ago, months after their bones were found on a glacier under the Matterhorn ...

At 2:20 am on Wednesday 12 September, 28-year-old François Cazzanelli and 29-year-old Andreas Steindl left the Hörnli Hut and, in the next 16 hours and 4 minutes, climbed all four ridges of the ...

Matterhorn climbing: on the mountain’s South Face the Italian François Cazzanelli has completed Diretta allo Scudo, a new rock climb he established with Roberto Ferraris, Francesco Ratti, Emrik Favre ...

During his 50-year career at Disneyland, Jimmie Payton was the first to climb Matterhorn mountain with Mickey Mouse and scaled the man-made peak more than 300 times — including during the 50th ...

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 ...