Incredible! I was sure this was a photoshopped picture until I read the original article. It is still hard to fathom how this is even possible. Keep in mind that this peak is 14,692 feet high.
I climbed the Matterhorn many years ago as a young buck in my 20's. It was traditionally a three day climb by the standard route (the prominent ridge in the foreground). I am sure the young Turk climbers routinely do it a lot faster today. The North Face route (to the right of the standard route) is still to this day considered to be one of the six most difficult climbs in the Alps.
The Swiss are great people. And like Americans, they have a strong and long standing tradition of private ownership of guns.
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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Incredible! I was sure this was a photoshopped picture until I read the original article. It is still hard to fathom how this is even possible. Keep in mind that this peak is 14,692 feet high.
I climbed the Matterhorn many years ago as a young buck in my 20's. It was traditionally a three day climb by the standard route (the prominent ridge in the foreground). I am sure the young Turk climbers routinely do it a lot faster today. The North Face route (to the right of the standard route) is still to this day considered to be one of the six most difficult climbs in the Alps.
The Swiss are great people. And like Americans, they have a strong and long standing tradition of private ownership of guns.
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