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As they arrive in Zermatt, visitors give whoops of joy at their first sight of the Matterhorn (4, 478 metres).
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From then on its ascent turned sheer vertical, like climbing the Matterhorn summit.
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And though he may not have been the first to climb the Matterhorn, he seems to have climbed it best.
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The closest the Smiths came to Italy in 2002--and again in 2003--was a wet slide down the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland.
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An Alpine chalet, with postcard-perfect views of the Matterhorn from every window?
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The single rider lines to fill out odd-numbered parties for the Matterhorn or Splash Mountain are not actually intended for single riders, yet the experience was strangely enjoyable.
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In the Valais region, an arc that runs along the French and Italian borders and home to the Matterhorn, the local fondue variety calls for a tomato coulis.
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Beck took his last photo in Zermatt in 1890, the same day his nephew (and assistant) Eduard Goehrs, 27, and two guides climbed the Matterhorn with a camera.
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The people of Niagara Falls must unconsciously look for it, the way the Swiss glance up at the Matterhorn, or the citizens of Portland, Oregon, locate Mount Hood: Where's the mountain?
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An MP at just 25, he was an archetypal Victorian hearty: a double blue in rowing and running at Oxford, he had subsequently swum the Niagara rapids twice, climbed the Matterhorn three times and represented his country at fencing in the unofficial 1906 Olympics.
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"Matterhorn" (2010) is a novel by Karl Marlantes about the Vietnam War.
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