Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extraordinary coincidences led to a misunderstanding about an accident on the Matterhorn. Yet the lesson remains: Mountaineering ...

Why rules matter: The Matterhorn’s altitude, terrain, and exposure require thorough preparation to reduce risks for climbers.

In the darkness of the Swiss Alps, Dr. Tom Harrison saw only the heels of his veteran mountain guide, Martin Lehner. That was a good thing. It would have been "unnerving," Tom said, if he actually saw ...

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Sam Evermore, the Colorado Springs climbing kid, is in Europe attempting to ascend the Matterhorn. Halfway across the world, we caught up with the 10-year-old and his ...

BLACK FOREST, Colo. (KRDO) - Sam Evermore, the Colorado Springs climbing kid, is back from a European adventure. He had his passport stamped and attempted the Matterhorn in August. But Sam and his dad ...

Sam Evermore became the youngest American to climb the Alps’ Matterhorn peak over the weekend, only three years after he became the youngest person to scale the El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite ...

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight rescue of a British couple trapped on the famous ...