The Matterhorn Bobsleds is not an original 1955 attraction at Disneyland, but it’s so deeply ingrained in the park’s mythology that it may as well be. That mountain, its snow-capped peak rising on one ...

The camera looks down into dizzying depths as Magnus Midtbø struggles with diminishing strength across ice and rock on the ...

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 ...

Explorers have mapped the surface of the iconic Matterhorn painstakingly by foot, by satellite, and now by drone, thanks to a partnership between drone maker senseFly and nonprofit Drone Adventures.

Toblerone is changing its chocolate bar's iconic packaging as the company moves to comply with new "Swissness" laws. But don't worry: The chocolate will stay the same. The wrapper will no longer ...

For “one crowded hour of glorious life” in the summer of 1865, a British engraver named Edward Whymper was on top of the world. He’d conquered the unconquerable Matterhorn, besting his rivals, and now ...

In a quiet corner of the Monte Rosa Hotel in Zermatt, Switzerland’s highest ski resort, there is a room full of faded photographs of Britain’s bravest (and most reckless) mountaineers. These are the ...

Looming over the Swiss mountain town of Zermatt with its forbidding peak twisting upwards like a collapsed witch's hat, the Matterhorn was said to be home to evil spirits. It was they whom locals ...