Matterhorn

Matterhorn, called by the French MONT CERVIN, and by the Italians MONTE SILVIO, a peak of the Alps between the Swiss canton of Valais and Piedmont, rises to the altitude of 14,705 feet. The actual peak was first scaled by Lord Francis Douglas, the Rev. C. Hudson, Hadow, and Whymper, with three guides, on 14th July 1865, when the three first-named and one of the guides fell over a precipice and were killed. See Whymper, Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880).