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"Unapproachable in Alpine literature."Few thought of travelling to the Alps until John Ruskin extolled the rugged beauty of the Matterhorn in 1844. However, it was 25-year-old Edward Whymper who inadvertently re-established its haunted aura upon making its first ascent in 1865. His Alpine adventure spurred the birth of mountaineering, while his memoir is still as fresh as when he wrote it as a love letter to the unique world and fierceness of nature he discovered while ascending thirteen Alpine peaks for the first time. Armed with a pick-axe, he climbed in tweeds and hobnailed leather shoes, alone or with other Brits and local hunters and craftsmen, who carried ropes, stores, tents, and hacked steps in the ice. Yet, today, the Matterhorn is still treacherous and has recorded over 500 more deaths since four of Whymper's party lost their lives-one of whom has yet to be found.Forgotten photographs-as a young engraver, Whymper enthusiastically embraced the rapidly advancing art of photography. In 1874, he was the first to take a portable camera and plates up the Matterhorn to turn photographs into drawings for a new edition of his book, and, in 1883, to include as lantern slides with talks (rousing in teenage Winston Churchill, for one, a lifelong passion for the Alps). In this edition, 56 of them accompany his original engravings and Alpine advice to illustrate his dramatic story, and many appear in print for the first time.

The Ascent Of The Matterhorn: With Maps And IllustrationsThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

The dramatic story of how the 13 mountain peaks, including the Matterhorn, were conquered by 25-year-old Edward Whymper, armed with tweeds, an ice-axe and Alpenstock. Includes for the first time the 56 photographs he took a decade later.