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Rick Steves Refers To This Breathtaking European Mountain As 'The Stonehenge Of Switzerland'
On his website, Steves writes, "The Matterhorn seems to have a nearly mystical draw for people — it's the Stonehenge of Switzerland." It may seem odd to compare a mountain to a monument built in ...
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Lost photographs of Edward Whymper's controversial conquest of the Matterhorn summit to be published
In 1865, in what is now referred to as "the golden days of Alpinism", English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator and author, Edward Whymper, completed the first ascent of the Matterhorn ...