Whymper's Way up the Matterhorn

‘Whymper's Way up the Matterhorn’ is a single film that doubles as a contemporary document. On the one hand, the documentary film shows the historical facts surrounding the first ascent of the Matterhorn by the British climber Edward Whymper and his rope team. The victory of reaching the summit on 14 July 1865 was followed by a tragic fall in which four people died: the English Lord Francis Douglas, Reverend Charles Hudson, Douglas Robert Hadow and the mountain guide Michel-Auguste Croz from Chamonix. Edward Whymper and Peter Taugwalder from Zermatt, father and son, survived. The Matterhorn was one of the last four-thousand-metre peaks that had not yet been climbed. After the tragic story of the first ascent, alpinists and tourists travelled from all over the world to see the Matterhorn.