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The contest for the [to be continued]

Autor(en): [s.n.]

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Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK

Band (Jahr): - (1965)

Heft 1481

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Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-693717

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http://www.e-periodica.ch 51566 THE SWISS OBSERVER 9th July 1965

of the actual of the Matterhorn (fifth attempt). But another tourist appeared that year of 1860 at the foot of the Matterhorn. This was to become his fate. He was the 20-year old . He 1965 The Year had been commissioned by a publishing house to tour the of the Alps and to make sketches for a travel handbook. Deeply impressed, he viewed the mountain first from , THE CONTEST FOR THE MATTERHORN then from Breuil. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first ascent In July 1861, the brothers Parker returned to Zermatt on 14th July 1865 and again climbed the Hörnligrat without a guide. This the One of the most exciting chapters in history of time they achieved a height of 12,210 ft. They told is the the Alpine undoubtedly history of Whymper who was also at Zermatt at the time, that a first ascent of the highest peaks in . It started on possible " path " could be distinguished which went slightly 8th August 1786, when the physician Dr. M. G. Paccard more than 1,000 ft. higher. After the attempt of J. A. first set foot on the Mont-Blanc (15,863 ft.) with the guide Carrel and J. J. Carrel from the south side (the seventh Jacques Balmat and concluded, as far as the attempt) in August when they reached the Crête du Coq over 13,000 ft. were concerned, on 14th July 1865, with (13,305 ft.), Whymper too began to enter the competition. the the Edward and conquest of Matterhorn by Whymper His first attempt with a guide from the Bernese Oberland his companions. was terminated on the Cheminée at a height of 12,721 ft. Let us briefly recapitulate the dates of the most im- Prof Tyndall was in the area again, but had to be satisfied 1811, portant first ascents in : with viewing the mountain from below as his guide refused 1813, and 1812, Zermatter Monte to attempt an ascent. Rosa 1820. Now follows a of () pause Seven to ascend the mountain in the 1862 Grosses Lauteraarhorn 1842, Bernina attempts year twenty-two years: The 1862 a record in to 1852, 1855, 1859, 1861, Dent year represents year respect the number of to the Matterhorn. The Blanche 1862, Dent d'Hérens 1863, 1864 and attempts conquer mountain defied no less than an additional seven Obergabelhorn 1865. is interesting to note that all the attempts It (the ninth to fifteenth) that A new distinguished giants of the Zermatter area were conquered, but its most year. candidate : T. S. Kennedy who had already climbed attractive the Matterhorn (14,774 had defied appears peak, ft.) the in 1860 and the in 1862 and attack until that time. every the first to succeed in both those A mortal combat was ascending peaks. As early as January, without the help of skis snow- Between 1857 and the first ascent on 14th July 1865, no or shoes, he reached a point 11,220 ft. high on the Hörnligrat. less than eighteen attempts to this, the most superb conquer But an icy snowstorm forced him to turn back. July 1862 mountain of all, are recorded. was in essence a grandiose It was season the Matterhorn, but the Italian duel bettween the Italian mountain guide Jean-Antoine high on only on side. Curiously enough the Swiss side was considered im- Carrel (1829-1890) from Valtournanche and the Englishman possible to climb. First Whymper and Reginald J. S. Edward Whymper (1840-1911). Repeatedly they had tried MacDonald with two guides reached the foot of the joint or completely independent solutions for this, the most Cheminée (12,068 ft); afterwards they reached a difficult alpine problem. The first two took place height attempts of 13,068 ft. at the foot of the Grande Tour, with in 1857. The first was undertaken by J. A. Carrel with together J. A. Carrel and Pession. Then undertook J. J. Carrel (in total four members of the Carrel family Whymper an audacious solo trip because the guides of both Breuil and took part in the attempts until 1865) and the seminarian Zermatt refuse to him. This time he a Amé Corret from Breuil via the Arrête du Lion to the Tête accompany set new record by reaching a height of 13,477 ft. beneath the du Lion (12,285 ft.). The second attempt, made by V. " Necktie " (twelfth attempt). Influenced his Carrel and G. Maquignaz took the same route but reached by success, J. A. Carrel again joined Whymper, but they reached only an altitude of 11,385 ft. only barely 13,000 ft. on the Crête du It is said that in 1858 or perhaps 1859 the first tourist Coq. Again Whymper attempted the ascent, accompanied only by the hunch- appeared who expressed interest in a possible ascent of the backed Porter Luc Meynet, and broke his record Matterhorn. It was the Englishman T. S. Kennedy who, own by reaching 13,536 ft. But this record was short- after taking a " tour du Cervin " and viewing the mountain very lived because just a few days later, on 28th Professor from all sides, came to the conclusion that the only July, way well with irons and to climb the mountain would probably be from the Italian Tyndall, equipped rope ladders, reached the Italian named side. J. A. and J.J. Carrel made the third in 1858 Epaule (14,051 ft.) "Pic attempt " this occasion. and reached the Grande Tour (12,540 ft.). After making Tyndall on Tyndall was accompanied by four guides including J. A. Carrel who was chief guide. a trip around the base of the Matterhorn, Vaughan Hawkins shared his compatriot Kennedy's opinion regard- (To be con/mwed.) [s.N.T.o.] ing the best way to climb the mountain. A 20-year old Englishman named Whymper In 1860, the first to climb the Matterhorn attempt TVie best from the Swiss side took place. Three Englishmen, the o/ BaZ/y aï brothers Alfred, Charles and Sandbach Parker, the first LONDON SHOE " guideless ones " in the area, climbed the Hörnligrat to about 11,880 ft., having started at Zermatt. There they for fashion with were forced to turn back because of bad weather. A an International flair further attack came from Breuil: The English Physicist 116 iVete Bond Street, ÎF.I Prof. and Vaughan Hawkins and the guides 260 Regent Street, IF.I J. A. Carrel and J. J. Bennen reached a height of over 22 SZoane Street, S.W.I 13,000 ft. on the Grande Tour, i.e. they reached the base