The Ascent of the Matterhorn
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The preface describes a request for sketches of great Alpine peaks before a long continental tour, made when the narrator had only a literary acquaintance with mountaineering. The narrator says he had never seen or set foot upon a mountain at that time. The travel account dates the start of a first tour in the Alps to the 23d of July 1860.
The account recalls a schoolboy attempt to scale a great chalk cliff with a brother, describing the occasion as the closest the pair had come to breaking their necks. A note says the ascent of the Pointe des Ecrins has been made several times since 1864, and recommends a ladder or another means of passing the bergschrund.
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- Author
- Edward Whymper
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
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