Biner_Leseprobe

Table of contents
Preface 7
The conquest of the Zermatt Mountains
The first mountain guides 8
Background on the first ascent of the Matterhorn 21
Did the rope break? 36
Interrogating Peter Taugwalder Senior 45
The account of Peter Taugwalder Junior 51
Jean Antoine Carrel 58
The Silver Age 64
Between two World Wars 75
The end of the last millennium 83
Matterhorn North Face and Furgggrat 96
On faraway peaks 102
The huts around Zermatt 110
The Zermatt Mountain Guides’ Association
The first association founded in 1858 114
The new association 118
The Matterhorn 123
Mountain guide office and mountaineering school 127
Social institutions 133
Alpine events and incidents 136
National and international mountain guides’ associations 139
Rescue 142
The mountain guide band 149
Comrades who died in the mountains 152
Historic table 156
Annex
Sources /picture credits 159
Acknowledgements 163