Here is some information about Edward Whymper and his team
The first ever ascent on The Matterhorn Mountain was on July 14, 1865. The man who completed this was Edward Whymper and he was only 25 at the time. Whymper tried to climb the Matterhorn 8 times during August 1861 and June 1865 before he was successful. The group encountered many difficulties on the way up, and reached the summit at 1.40pm. The last snow slope was said to be so easy that Whymper and one if his fellow climbers detached themselves and ran to the top. When they reached the summit they spotted the Italians.
"The Matterhorn attracted me simply by its grandeur,” he wrote later. “It was the last great Alpine peak which remained unscaled – less on account of the difficulty… than from the terror inspired by its invincible appearance. I returned year after year more and more determined to find a way up it or to prove it to be really inaccessible.” - Edward Whymper describing the mountain
The first woman to ascent was Lucy Walker in the year 1871.
Edward Whymper and party's first ascent of the mountain ended in tragedy, as the Rev Charles Hudson, Douglas Hadow, Lord Francis Douglas, and the guide Michel Croz all fell to their deaths on the descent. Only Whymper himself and two Swiss guides (Taugwalder father and son) survived. Lord Francis Douglas' body has never been recovered.
"The Matterhorn attracted me simply by its grandeur,” he wrote later. “It was the last great Alpine peak which remained unscaled – less on account of the difficulty… than from the terror inspired by its invincible appearance. I returned year after year more and more determined to find a way up it or to prove it to be really inaccessible.” - Edward Whymper describing the mountain
The first woman to ascent was Lucy Walker in the year 1871.
Edward Whymper and party's first ascent of the mountain ended in tragedy, as the Rev Charles Hudson, Douglas Hadow, Lord Francis Douglas, and the guide Michel Croz all fell to their deaths on the descent. Only Whymper himself and two Swiss guides (Taugwalder father and son) survived. Lord Francis Douglas' body has never been recovered.