Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extraordinary coincidences led to a misunderstanding about an accident on the Matterhorn. Yet the lesson remains: Mountaineering ...

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 ...

From a distance, the imposing sight of the Matterhorn appears fixed in time. But up close, the 14,692-foot spire in the Swiss Alps is getting a little rickety. As the snow evaporates and permafrost ...

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A major rockfall occurred on an iconic Swiss peak, the Matterhorn, on August 5, 2026. Clouds of dust could be seen rising from the massif as debris tumbled down the Italian side of the mountain, known ...

Mountaineering on the Matterhorn: from 15 - 16 March Alexander Huber from Germany and Switzerland’s Dani Arnold and Thomas Senf climbed a new route up the legendary North Face of one of the symbols of ...

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 ...