The Night The Matterhorn

It’s a vision that prompts mixed emotions, an image of beauty side by side with terror. And rightly so; for this astonishing photo of the Matterhorn’s Hörnli Ridge lit with red lamps was created to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the mountain’s first ascent – an event as bloody as it was glorious. To create the image, teams of guides set off from the Hörnli Hut armed with GPS units, altimeters and powerful Mammut X-Sun headtorches. Precision was critical: 46 lights (some of them on the heads of guide