Word: zermatt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellow specks dotted the Hag's snow-flesh, last week, crawled and hacked their way upward from Zermatt. Wise tourists, bedded at luxurious Gornergrat, rose early and viewed the dawn-pink Alpine panorama on which the Matterhorn looms as but one of many peaks. From Gornergrat the yellow specks could not be seen-yet one of them was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado, indefatigable Alpinist (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...
...Italian slope, Prince Chichibu and his party escaped the addition of a death toll to the list of 21 brave Alpinists who have perished on the Matterhorn. Next day, indefatigable, he scrambled up the Rothorn (13,855 ft.) in seven hours. "My muscles," he said on again reaching Zermatt, "have become like whipcord...
Died. Peter Taugwalder, Alpine climber, at Zermatt, Switzerland. He was one of three survivors of the party of ten who first climbed the Matterhorn, 58 years ago. Descending the mountain, one climber slipped and pulled six others over a 4,000 foot precipice. Herr Taugwalder climbed the Matterhorn more than 120 times...