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...Matterhorn is not much of a challenge any more. Robert McNamara climbed it, after all, and it is the sort of hill that Stewart Udall would probably try to run up. So many people (1,000 a year) have made the trip since Britain's Edward Whymper first succeeded in 1865 that the popular climbing routes are covered with pitons and footholds as easy to negotiate as a flight of steps. So easy, in fact, that a whimsical Englishman once won a bet that he could reach the summit without ever touching the mountain: he simply hired four guides...
...will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Conquest of the Matterhorn" under the auspices of the Mining Club, in the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which will be open to the public, will be illustrated with lantern slides made from drawings by Mr. Edward Whymper, who reached the summit of the Matterhorn after several unsuccessful attempts...
...missing from the library of the Union: Abbott, "Rights of Man"; Chambers, "Maker of Moons"; Cook, "Anthology of Humorous Verse"; Gilson, "When Love is Young"; McCutcheon, "Beverly of Graustark"; Tarkington, "Two Vanrevels"; Thurston, "The Masquerader"; Washington, "Future of American Negro"; Wells, "Food of the Gods"; White, "The Mountains"; Whymper, "Travels amongst the Andes"; Williams, "Princeton Stories"; Wister. "The Virginian...
...Scrambles among the Alps" by Edward Whymper...
...Scrambles among the Alps" by Edward Whymper...