Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extraordinary coincidences led to a misunderstanding about an accident on the Matterhorn. Yet the lesson remains: Mountaineering ...

Should the Matterhorn close? That question arose again last week after at least one anonymous guide told the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger that the mountain was too unstable and therefore too ...

From a distance, the imposing sight of the Matterhorn appears fixed in time. But up close, the 14,692-foot spire in the Swiss Alps is getting a little rickety. As the snow evaporates and permafrost ...

The star Canadian skyrunner athlete vanished without a trace on the Matterhorn on Sept. 1. Here’s what we know ...

My second day since entering Switzerland. I'm heading out for a hike, aiming for the legendary Matterhorn. The long-awaited ...

The 14,692-foot peak is one of Switzerland's most recognizable features. Wikimedia photo. A 24-year-old British climber died while climbing the Matterhorn, according to SWI. Hit by a falling boulder, ...

Edward Whymper paved the way for mountaineers to start climbing the Matterhorn and while you would be right in assuming that mountaineering was a boys club, that wasn't the full picture. After all, a ...