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 ...

A former soldier has become the first above-the-knee double amputee to scale the Matterhorn ... designed prosthetic limb fell off near the summit and took more than 20 minutes to reattach.

circa 200m beneath the Muzio summit. But no one, prior to Barmasse, had climbed directly up the 700m high overhanging pillar. It was a project with a big question mark - apart from the absolute ...

Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest peaks, located in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland, is eroding as a result of melting glacier water at the summit. In the 88 years between ...