In 1865, in what is now referred to as "the golden days of Alpinism", English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator and author, Edward Whymper, completed the first ascent of the Matterhorn ...

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and it's a part of the world that famous mountaineer Edward Whymper once reportedly referred to as "fifty Switzerlands in one," according to The Society of International Railway Travelers.