Our mountaineering expert considers the world’s greatest mountaineers throughout history, as well as casting an eye on those ...

The iconic route has only been climbed once before, during the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV back in 1958. All attempts since then have failed.

Three people died on Matterhorn last week in two separate accidents. By chance, a mountain guide filmed one of the victims shortly before the man fell to his death. The guide, Eukeni Soto, was ...

Imagine the surprise, then, of villagers in the base town of Zermatt when none other than Italy’s Walter Bonatti turned up last week to try a Matterhorn ascent. Bonatti, 34, is one of the best ...

>Italy’s Walter Bonatti, 34: the first successful direttissima—straight up—ascent of the 14,701-ft. Matterhorn’s north wall; in Switzerland. Two days after 60 m.p.h. winds forced Bonatti ...

On 06/02/2024 Italian alpinists François Cazzanelli, Jerome Perruquet, Marco Farina and Stefano Stradelli established a new route on the South Face of the Matterhorn (4,478m).

Five cross-country skiers were found dead near Switzerland's Matterhorn on Sunday, as rescue teams continue to search for a sixth missing skier.

Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineering: K2, Dru, G4, Matterhorn, to name a few. But the summits reached are not points of arrival ...

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Walter Bonatti, Mont Blanc, his mountaineering. The new episode of the Petzl Legend Tour Italy takes you on a journey through history and time. After a visit to the National Museum of the Mountain, ...