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Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first climb of the
Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and his party in July1865, this large
format pictorial book features over 100 pages of photographs of the
world's most recognisable mountain, together with tantalising
extracts from Whymper's own book The Ascent of the Matterhorn, and
the details of Graeme Wallace's attempt to traverse the summit up
via the Lion Ridge in Italy and down the Hornli Ridge in
Switzerland, 150 years later in 2015. Back in 1865, a series of
remarkable coincidences brought together several ambitious British
mountaineers in a race to first ascend the 4478 metre Matterhorn.
Referred to as The Devil's Mountain and believed to be the place
where only spirits dwelt, the Matterhorn was considered
un-scalable. While the hurriedly formed British team tackled the
unknown north-east ridge, a well-funded Italian team, with a two
day head start, approached up via the south-west ridge. The race to
finally conquer the mighty Matterhorn was truly on.Success was
followed by disaster and despite becoming the most successful
mountaineer of his day, stories of triumph, transgression and
tragedy would follow Whymper for the rest of his 46 years of life.
Nessie (the Loch Ness Monster) lives in a cave in Loch Ness in
Scotland with her four brothers and sisters. She is very shy and
always hides when people visit the loch so no one really knows what
she looks like. Sometimes when they think they have seen her it's
actually one of her brothers or sisters Through a series of clues
using 'touchy-feely' materials, each page gives a clue to
identifying which of the five characters is Nessie.
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