The 14,690-foot Matterhorn towers above Zermatt, a tiny but hugely touristed town of roughly 6,000 people nestled at the dead ...

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 ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn, the Telegraph's adventure expert attempted to recreate the achievement in difficult conditions The only sound was our ...

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When you finally reach Zermatt, and see the Matterhorn for the first time, you realise why it’s enthralled so many mountaineers – and why so many of them have risked (and often sacrificed) their lives ...