El Matterhorn yenye yeentaba ezidumileyo ehlabathini. Ngemilo yayo engunxantathu, ijongeka ngathi itsaliwe ngumntwana. Asiyoyona ntaba iphakamileyo kwiiAlps, nkqu naseSwitzerland. Nangona kunjalo, ihlala iveza umtsalane ongenakuphikiswa kubahambi kunye nabakhenkethi.
El UMonte Cervino (IMatterhorn ngesiJamani) imi kumda ophakathi kweSwitzerland ne-Itali nangaphezulu kwesixeko sase I-Zermatt kwikanton yaseValais. Ingqungquthela yayo yeemitha ezingama-4.478 yenye yezona ziphakamileyo kwiiAlps kwaye itsala abakhweli abanjengomazibuthe.
Ibali lithi iMatterhorn yaqala ukunyuka ngu-Edward Whymper ngo-1865, kodwa inzame yaphela kwintlekele xa intambo exhasa inani labakhweli yaqhekeka kwaye bazifaka kuloo nto.
Abasetyhini bazamile nokuyinyuka: U-Lucy Walker wayengowokuqala ukunyuka ngo-1871 kodwa akazange afike kule ngqungquthela. Kwaye phakathi kwamanqaku anomdla, i-American Meta Brevoort yeza nenja yakhe uTschingel.
Kuya kufuneka uyazi ukuba intaba ithathe ubomi obuninzi kumashumi eminyaka ukuze ubone amangcwaba abantu abaninzi abanyukayo emangcwabeni eZermatt. Abanye babo babeselula kakhulu.
Inyani yile yokuba ukusukela kwinkulungwane ye-1865 iAlps inomdla kwizizukulwana zabaphandi, kodwa iMatterhorn yahlala ingaziwa de kwangowe-XNUMX, kodwa njengoko sele sibonile, yaphela kabuhlungu.
Sele kulwakhiwo lukaloliwe oludibanisa isixeko saseVisp kunye neZermatt ngo-1888, lo mmandla waziwa ngcono utsala abanomdla.