ArtVandelay wrote:terrible, but the client is very lucky that he wasnt pulled off the mountain too...you are always short roped together...if the guide took a big fall and they were climbing together, he would have pulled the client off with him...if the rope was fixed on an iron(which is likely at that point in the climb), the guide would not have been able to fall further than the length of the uncoiled rope...maybe he wasnt wearing a helmet and hit his head?
i think it is expected that there will be several deaths on the matterhorn each summer. i was climbing the hornligrat a few weeks ago and several people fell to their deaths. i also witnessed a pretty big rock fall that could have very easily knocked several people off...it is always a dangerous mountain, especially with the crowds.
Any sources online regarding these multiple deaths? I am curious as I was there a couple of weeks ago and never heard about them?