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The Matterhorn: The Tragic First Ascent

By Ferdinand Kämpfer

Book information

Publisher
TWENTYSIX
Year
2020
ISBN
9783740721039, 1872504287
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1745583 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 13:33:13
LAN025000language artsNonfiction

Description

On 14th July 1865, two competing rope teams made their way to the summit of the Matterhorn. The mountain was considered invincible until Italians and Britons had the iron will to climb the colossus in the middle of the 19th century. The team around the British alpinist Edward Whymper won the race. It was sensational that for the first time people boarded the Matterhorn for good. But his rough aura was to take revenge: when the men de-scended the mountain, four of the seven climbers fell into the abyss, which is why the first ascent heralded the end of the Golden Age of Alpinism. What exactly happened in the crash? This commemorative volume keeps the memory alive.

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