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 ...

Another climber fell to his death on the Matterhorn yesterday. Hours before, rescuers from Air Zermatt had spotted the lifeless bodies of two other climbers at the base of the north side. Both ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Sam Evermore, the Colorado Springs climbing kid, is in Europe attempting to ascend the Matterhorn. Halfway across the world, we caught up with the 10-year-old and his ...

GENEVA (AP) — Police in southwestern Switzerland say a 24-year-old British mountain climber who was coming down from the country’s famed Matterhorn fell to his death in pre-dawn darkness, after a ...

Sam Evermore became the youngest American to climb the Alps’ Matterhorn peak over the weekend, only three years after he became the youngest person to scale the El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite ...

In August François Cazzanelli, Michele Cazzanelli and Stefano Stradelli hanno made the first ascent of 'Il Nodo Infinito' on Pic Tyndall (4241m) on the south face of the Matterhorn. On the legendary ...

BERLIN (AP) — Switzerland’s most famous mountain, the Matterhorn, will be closed to climbers on the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of its summit. The Alpine resort of Zermatt says the 24-hour ...

September, coming at the end of the months of summer heat, is when ice cover is at its lowest, and it was in September last year - roughly a year after Biner's discovery of Conville's body - that the ...

In the darkness of the Swiss Alps, Dr. Tom Harrison saw only the heels of his veteran mountain guide, Martin Lehner. That was a good thing. It would have been "unnerving," Tom said, if he actually saw ...