First ascent - Tödi, the Alpine Club’s First Mountain English gentlemen found the Alpine Club in 1857 and climb peak after peak in the Alps. The "Golden Age of Alpinism" has dawned, and now the onrush by the British has...
First ascent - Piz Bernina Pontresina "At 6 o'clock in the evening we stand atop the longed-for, lofty peak, on soil that has never been tread upon by man, at 4052 meters above sea level, the highest point...
First ascent - Matterhorn Zermatt "The gradient decreased and we could finally unfasten ourselves, and Croz and I started a neck-and-neck race. At a quarter to two o'clock the world lay at our feet,...
First ascent - Finsteraarhorn. Grindelwald "The very ascent of the Finsteraarhorn from this side is absolutely impossible for human beings", said Franz Josef Hugi, the natural scientist from Solothurn in 1830.
First ascent - Eiger Grindelwald On account of its North Face, the Eiger (3970m) is the most famous peak of the Bernese Alps. Consisting in part of brittle limestone, it is a striking bulwark above...
