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the ascent of the matterhorn

by edward whymper

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Author: edward whymper

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In July 1865 an obscure printer named Edward Whymper became the most talked-about man in the Victorian age. He had climbed the Matterhorn, one of the world's legendary mountains, and one of the last to be conquered in the Alps, but he had earned his glory at a horrible cost. A rope snapped during the descent and four of his seven-strong team fell to their deaths. Portions sufficient to fill three coffins were later retrieved. Of the fourth man - a Lord, no less - nothing was found save a shoe, a pair of gloves and a coat sleeve. The Matterhorn disaster was one of those tragedies of which the Victorians were so fond and to which they were so prone. It became one of the memorable events of the age, on a par with Livingstone's death in Africa and Scott's fate at the South Pole. Today, the controversy whether he directly or indirectly caused their deaths continues to rage.

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...CROZ DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF — THE CLUB-ROOM OF ZEP^MATl' ...... 193-203 1865 CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST ASCENT OF THE GRAND CORNIER. ON CHOICE OF ROUTES — REGRETS — ZINAL — ASCENT OF THE GRAND CORNIER — EFFECTS OF SUN AND FROST — GREAT RIDGES SUFFER MOST — POINTS OF DIFFERENCE BE- TWEEN ATMOSPHERIC AND GLACIER EROSION — ABRICOLLA . . 204-214 CHAPTER XIII. THE ASCENT OF THE DENT BLANCHE. LESLIE SI'EPHEN — KENNEDY'S ASCENT — ON BERGSCHRUNDS — UNWELCOME ATTENTIONS — A RACE FOR LIFE — BENIGHTED — A SURPRISE . . . 215-222 CHAPTER XIV. LOST ON THE COL D'HEKENS— SEVENTH ATTEMPT TO ASCEND THE 1\LVTTERH0RN— THE FIRST ASCENT OF THE GRANDES J GRASSES. A LATE START AND THE RESULT — BEWILDERED — RETURN TO ABRICOLLA — CROSS COL D'hERENS TO ZERMATT — ASCEND THE THEODULHORN — NEW IDEAS REGARDING THE MA1TI;RH0RN — DECEITIVENESS of the east FACE — STRATIFICATION — DIP OF THE BEDS — TRY ANOTHER ROUTE — "SAUVE QUI PEUT " — BEATEN AGAIN — ASCENT OF THE...

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