The camera looks down into dizzying depths as Magnus Midtbø struggles with diminishing strength across ice and rock on the ...

The Matterhorn Bobsleds is not an original 1955 attraction at Disneyland, but it’s so deeply ingrained in the park’s mythology that it may as well be. That mountain, its snow-capped peak rising on one ...

Extraordinary coincidences led to a misunderstanding about an accident on the Matterhorn. Yet the lesson remains: Mountaineering is no joke, the Matterhorn is a serious endeavor, and mistakes ...

Explorers have mapped the surface of the iconic Matterhorn painstakingly by foot, by satellite, and now by drone, thanks to a partnership between drone maker senseFly and nonprofit Drone Adventures.

Monte Bianco (Mont Blanc·4810m) is the Italian name for Mont Blanc, meaning "White Mountain." While it is common to take a ...

For “one crowded hour of glorious life” in the summer of 1865, a British engraver named Edward Whymper was on top of the world. He’d conquered the unconquerable Matterhorn, besting his rivals, and now ...

In a quiet corner of the Monte Rosa Hotel in Zermatt, Switzerland’s highest ski resort, there is a room full of faded photographs of Britain’s bravest (and most reckless) mountaineers. These are the ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A projection of the Stars and Stripes lit up the face of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps in a show of ...

Looming over the Swiss mountain town of Zermatt with its forbidding peak twisting upwards like a collapsed witch's hat, the Matterhorn was said to be home to evil spirits. It was they whom locals ...