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 ...

During his 50-year career at Disneyland, Jimmie Payton was the first to climb Matterhorn mountain with Mickey Mouse and scaled the man-made peak more than 300 times — including during the 50th ...

Despite more than a century and a half of climbing history, even the most popular peaks in the Alps have some potential new lines. Two of those elusive firsts recently fell to determined seekers.

As mountains go, Switzerland’s 14,701 -ft. Matterhorn is not much of a challenge any more. Robert McNamara climbed it, after all, and it is the sort of hill that Stewart Udall would probably try to ...