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 ...

Swiss Mountaineer Dani Arnold breaks the record for the quickest ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn mountain in the Alps. The 1,100 meter-high climb usually takes mountain climbers between ...

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 ...

Watch Marcin Dzieński's epic speed-climbing race against an elevator See Marcin Dzieński's climbing race against an elevator.

Matterhorn south face: François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre and Francesco Ratti making the first winter ascent 'Padre Pio, Une Echelle Vers le Ciel' (27/02 - 0/03/2022) Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

learned to ski and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in the Row2Recovery team. The Matterhorn ascent has raised more than £6,000 for Mr Heritage's charity Climb 2 Recovery.

The first filmed winter ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn. To set the scene, the tragic story of Edward Whymper's first ascent is skillfully pieced together. The modern expedition ...

There are four routes up the Matterhorn which are climbed relatively regularly. All can be climbed from Zermatt. By far and away the most frequented is the North-East or Hörnli Ridge (AD III-). This ...

There are four routes up the Matterhorn which are climbed relatively regularly. All can be climbed from Zermatt. By far and away the most frequented is the North-East or Hörnli Ridge (AD III-). This ...