Matterhorn
Mountain
The pointed peak in the Alps that looks like a pyramid.
The Matterhorn is 4,478 metres high and stands on the border of Switzerland and Italy. With its sharp point and four steep faces it looks like a pyramid of rock and ice.
It was one of the last great peaks of the Alps to be climbed. A group led by Edward Whymper reached the top on 14 July 1865. On the way down four of the seven men fell to their death.
- high
- 4,478 m
- first climbed
- 1865
- faces
- 4
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The four faces point roughly north, east, south and west.
- 2
The rock at the top came from Africa: it was pushed up when the continents collided.
- 3
In Zermatt, the village at its foot, ordinary cars are not allowed.
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