Not to be confused with the Murderhorn, the tallest mountain in Springfield which is conquered by Homer Simpson.

@harrisonlee9585

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to PowerSauce Bars!

@ccggenius

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrisonlee9585 PowerSauce Bars? Those are nothing but apple cores and old newspapers!

@vinceblasco

3 жыл бұрын

Came here for this. Was not disappointed.

@BNT1985

3 жыл бұрын

Huh Deng Xiaoping died...

@BR-dj1bo

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrisonlee9585 “Wake up Homer, that stuff is junk! It’s just made of Apple cores and Chinese News Paper!”

This was obviously before the invention of horses, as Skyrim shows us that's all you need to ascend vertical surfaces.

@christophersudbrink4946

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! As if!

@Ahrpigi

3 жыл бұрын

@@christophersudbrink4946 Magestic and magical creatures. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqml0NODg6WqkqQ.html

@NotAnAlex_Guy

3 жыл бұрын

Also in MC

@Eoniclipse

3 жыл бұрын

Can confirm, accurate historic event

@Camexagon

3 жыл бұрын

Even tho the Skyrim horses are slow, they have the supernatural ability to stand on the steepest ledges

It’s fun to see a mountain story that isn’t Everest

@benghazi4216

3 жыл бұрын

I recommend looking for stories around K2. The proper over 8000m peak.

@unsubme2157

3 жыл бұрын

This mountain honestly makes everest look like childs play. No comparison.

@ecurewitz

3 жыл бұрын

I climb up Mount Holyoke almost every year. Ok, it's only 1000 feet high, but at least I don;t have to worry about my friends dying on the moutain either

@benghazi4216

3 жыл бұрын

@@unsubme2157 Oh come on, the Matterhorn has no death zone where you just leave people who fall over to die.

@mcofficer

3 жыл бұрын

@@benghazi4216 Here's another recommendation: Nanga Parbat. Hermann Buhl made the ascent alone, and returned on nothing but balls of steel, surviving an entire night standing in the middle of the mountainside.

Fun story from Matterhorn: there was a class of students ages 16-17 who had taken a journey across Europe studying history while practicing cross country running. (Well most of them- one student was more into the history and adamantly decided to only walk.) the trip ended at Zermatt, with a climb to the first checkpoint of the Matterhorn (or at least to some point just beyond the stop at Schwarzee.) Now, that one unathletic student knew they couldn’t keep up, so they decided to focus on photos and appreciating the hike instead of keeping up with the group. Now, at one point she came across two other students who seemed to actually be hiking to a house. She got their attention and tried to point in what she thought was the right direction, but the other two wandered off and started following another hiker. What was to be done? So, the girl followed after with the thought that a staying together would be better. The group ended up on their own, and the path seemed a lot harder than the teacher promised it would be. They had to navigate footing on loose rocks and boulders, giant sheets of ice on a steep slope, and a path about 7 inches wide, that when turning did so about 335 degrees in a sharp, tight manner. For a teenage girl it was terrifying, especially with the valley of Titian-sized spikes below the sheer drop. During one of the hardest points, a combination of the sheer drop, lack of path and ice coverings, the group ran into the hiker from earlier.much more experienced, he helped the girls safely navigate the terrain, assisting each one in their crossing. Hilariously, it turns out his girlfriend graduated from the exact same high school as the students- which is one of the crazier coincidences I’ve encountered. Eventually, the group made it to Schwarzsee and its restaurant- where a bunch of worried teachers and chaperones greeted them. The students were almost 2 hours behind all the others! The girls explained why, attesting to the difficult terrain. This puzzled the adults- the path they were supposed to climb was gradual, wide, and forested. After some map examining, everyone figured it out. The group of girls actually hiked the dangerous edge, traversed over to the nearby peak and then back again to Schwarzsee! For comparison, it was akin to someone learning to ski attempting their first trail/descent on a black diamond right off the bat. Turns out the hiker they followed was extremely experienced, and in no way should they have gone that way! After going inside for warmth and pie, some of the adults accompanied the girls to the meeting point just a bit higher up on the Matterhorn base. Meanwhile, that unathletic girl? She found the summer weather to be perfectly bright and chilly, and cozied up in her jacket, sleeping for over an hour curled up in a hammock like chair on the patio. And that’s the story of how I accidentally climbed two mountains, almost fell into a valley of rocks/spikes, and took the best nap of my entire life.

@angelwhispers2060

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that was hilarious.

@noxtorism

2 жыл бұрын

what a plot twist

@joshuagraham1586

2 жыл бұрын

Too long didn’t read

@georgielinscott

Жыл бұрын

noted

@pdan4

Жыл бұрын

Bravo!

When they started shouting and throwing rocks, I was certain that they were going to cause an avalanche.

@martijn9568

3 жыл бұрын

That or just hit another person. Which is why throwing rocks down a mountain is prohibited inside these countries.

@rafimuhammadzakaria482

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@TheLionEric

3 жыл бұрын

Sound waves cant cause avalanches... but rocks might.

@amos9274

3 жыл бұрын

nah matterhorns too steep to cause avalanches that high up

@jakkakasunset5485

3 жыл бұрын

Same

This would actually make a really good movie: A mountain climber desperate to beat another group to the top of the untamed Matterhorn puts together a rag-tag group to try to take them on.

@Tailikku1

3 жыл бұрын

Disney already did such: Third Man on the Mountain

@Redemptorchapter

3 жыл бұрын

I felt like I was at the start of a D&D campaign...

@rngesus7783

3 жыл бұрын

journey to the center of the earth (i guess)

@MLJ___

3 жыл бұрын

@@Redemptorchapter YOOOO TOTALLY

@davidwhiting1761

3 жыл бұрын

Then in the third act half the rag-tag group who we will have come to know and love throughout the epic struggle dies in a freak accident and we're left with the Avengers-esque question of "Did you do it?" "Yes." "What did it cost?" "...everything..."

"...from the fabled Northwest Passage..." We need a series on The Franklin Expedition.

@fergusmcconkey7400

3 жыл бұрын

Have u watched The Terror?

@rafimuhammadzakaria482

3 жыл бұрын

The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror :'(

@ReverendMeat51

3 жыл бұрын

F

Zermatt is so beautiful. Especially interesting how they have their houses on stilts to stop bugs from getting in.

@Abraxium

3 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind that these are warehouses, they exist in some similar form in most of Europe. Asia and Africa too, but not as preserved unless currently in use

Even the Spanish Inquisition didn't expect this.

@galiciangladiator5857

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh we kinda did expect it, they announced this series and the few after it in the Teddy the Trustbuster Lies video, next series is the Thirty Year's War

@NobelTheKnave

3 жыл бұрын

*Tread carefully Arbiter, for what you say is heresy*

I do have a problem with Extrahistory mentioning that the “face” of the Eiger was climbed during the initial wave of Alpine mountaineering - while the Mountain itself was climbed early on, the actual North Face (which has an insanely tragic history and frankly could deserve an entire series in its own right) wasn’t climbed until the 1930s

@redalertiscool5172

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: the Railway to the jungfraujoch, that had to blow its way troug multiple Kilometers of stone with exploseives where Faster on the Jungfraujoch than those guys on the eiger

This is a historical action movie in animated KZread form.

@euansmith3699

3 жыл бұрын

A real Cliffhanger!

@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347

3 жыл бұрын

@@euansmith3699 pun intended?

@euansmith3699

3 жыл бұрын

@@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 Always :D

I would love to see the Spanish Civil War (especially with a focus on the people who volunteered to fight their) as an extra history topic.

@mich8050

3 жыл бұрын

There

@diegoontour

3 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to see, since nobody talk about this.

@ArkadiBolschek

3 жыл бұрын

Seconded!

@FatherTime89

3 жыл бұрын

Now that you bring that up I also want to see them do videos on Ernest Hemingway.

@isaacmcmanus3666

3 жыл бұрын

@@FatherTime89 George Orwell also volunteered to fight as well.

I am from the region of Zermatt, about an hour upwards the valley and in school we learned about this story and whenever we where in Zermatt we heard and read about it and I have to say, it's very interesting to hear everything from an outside view an in English ^^

Which is worse; Falling to your death, being smashed against the rocks & ice with snow and the cold preventing you from dying right away, or watching that happen to *TWO* of your friends & coming home to constantly be told how it was your fault & be forced to relive it over and over to "prove" your innocence. Great sport, that one.

Yo, a few years back, some madlads used a helicopter to fly an entire Kiosk to the peak of the Matterhorn just to mess with famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner. He had made a guided tour and when he finally arrived at the top, there was just this dude in a Kiosk telling him that: "Yeah, every morning I come up here to sell my wares and then I head down again..." And then the man also asked Messner to sign the Kiosks supply of his book, to increase their retail value.

If the rope hasn't snapped, they all probably would've died. But that's just the tragedy of survivor's guilty.

@laurakastrup

2 жыл бұрын

And yet if Croz could find a hold maybe the two other, experienced mountaineers could have too and then the inexperienced could have been guided to grab on to something This is the problem with survivors guilt and tragedies. There’s always a “what if”

I remember watching a film in German class about this and can say your version is way more interesting

I’ve actually attempted climbing the Matterhorn! I was about seventeen feet up and got dragged back down. Apparently Disneyland frowns upon doing that. 😢

I always found the fact that people who climb Everest can actually use the frozen, irretrievable corpses of those who had failed and died on the mountain as markers incredibly morbid.

@ghazghkullthraka9714

2 жыл бұрын

The mountain could blow off or bury marker flags

@AshBloodfire

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghazghkullthraka9714 That is a very good point.

This one seems really polished! Well done on animating this one.

3 minutes ago? Last time I was this early, the Swiss Matterhorn was only about as tall as the Disneyland Matterhorn, because the collision between Africa and Europe was still beginning.

as an extra history topic can you do the legendary commando raid on st nazaire

@steffanyschwartz7801

3 жыл бұрын

Go to baz battles he covers it in depth

@davidmullally4792

3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE!

@geoffreyherrick298

3 жыл бұрын

The Eagle's Nest!

@EForrest88

3 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson documentary on it is great, it's on youtube in full (The Greatest Raid of All Time)

This week on Extra History: a subject you never really considered before, & how it's going to engross you for the next month

@sarasamaletdin4574

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is not long series but a two parter that’s often in the end of series (sometimes it’s one parter).

Gaulic tribes that used to live in the Alps : Am I a joke to you? Edit:THIS IS A JOKE

@leggonarm9835

3 жыл бұрын

Live?

@Palladiosios

3 жыл бұрын

Used to live?

@shrimpisdelicious

3 жыл бұрын

Julius Caesar: "Yes."

@vetren23

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody lived on top of the Matterhorn.

@victorvonsteuben1728

3 жыл бұрын

They lived in the valleys, no need to climb mountain peaks.

Extra history should do a video on the discovery of Everest as the highest mountain on earth Before Everest was discovered, in 18th and early 19th century, the title of the highest mountain kept changing places with new mountains getting discovered that had higher peaks. Even after Everest was discovered it took decades of disputes before it finally got termed the highest.

There is a battalion of Italian Special Forces named after the Matterhorn. The “Alpini Paracadutisti Battaglione Monte Cervino”

@bypy3544

3 жыл бұрын

What does paracadutisti mean and alpini

@Spacemongerr

2 жыл бұрын

@@bypy3544 paratroopers & alpine (of the Alps)

@bypy3544

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spacemongerr thx

Well, as someone who lived not far from Zermatt, and has skied there, I might not look at that mountain face the same way again. Or Toblerone, I guess.

Wasn't expecting mountain climbing. But i love this video.

An unexpected series, but I'm intrigued already.

Queen Victoria: "I can excuse the opium trade, but I draw the line at mountain climbing!"

@SilentGlaceon94

3 жыл бұрын

You can excuse the opium trade?

"i won, but at what cost?" fits that man so much

You should do a video on the italian wars and possibly on the Borgia family.

Loving these small scale stories in between the massive epics! Keep it up

I would love to see you cover The Battle of Blair Mountain.

Having climbed Matterhorn via the same route (Hornligrat) the story becomes very visual as you have an idea where exactly the tragedy happened...

@PianoSpeaks

3 жыл бұрын

How was the climb?

@maumastoks

3 жыл бұрын

@@PianoSpeaks difficult but damn fun :D my partner wrote a big blog about it. Google "renpoint project matterhorn" as I don't think URLs can be placed in youtube comments

@muttproductions2536

3 жыл бұрын

The story speaks to me in a different way, as members of my family immigrated to America from Switzerland (though we came from Canton Ticino rather than Canton Valais, where the Matterhorn resides, but we're right next to them). The Matterhorn is as much sacred as it is legendary. It's still home to spirits and monsters who will make your life hell if you fail to tread carefully

LOVE THE EXTRA HISTORY OF MOUNTAINEERING! I NEED A LOT MORE!

Hey it’s the Toblerone logo!

So I'm guessing that bringing along an "amateur who happened to be strong" to help complete a never before completed task was probably a bad idea.

Brilliant work as always!! Great job

This is the kind of stuff I sub to this channel for.

I can confirm that people dying attempting such a challenge only encourages more people to come and try. In my area is a railroad bridge with a 70 foot deep pool of water below it and screwy teenagers jump off of it safely all the time but when some of those screwy teenagers died jumping off of it once it only encouraged more screwy teenagers to come from further away to jump off it because in their words "it must be an amazing experience because it was worth dying for".

Amazing as usual. Liking and sharing immediately :-)

Love the video, keep the awesome workvup!

Awesome stuff!

I don't think I've ever found a history channel as diverse as EH, you guys are awesome!! I know I'm not a patreon (yet) but can I suggest the Birkenhead drill for an episode?

I love history. I love climbing. I will love this series!

Love you guys’s content keep it up I love it

Thank you for the episode.

Love you guys!

You ever feel like you're climbing up the mountain of nihilism? The nothing even matters horn.

@mich8050

3 жыл бұрын

Always

YES, I’ve wanted to learn more about this topic for a while now

thanks for the vid

Do one of King John II of Portugal who is also called the perfect prince. He took control of the crown even before his father died.

Glad to see another video in my notifications :)

Everytime I hear Matterhorn I think of the famous expert mountain climber Reinhold Messner who is very critical of tourism on such high mountains. In the 80s a German TV Show called „Verstehn Sie Spass“ did a prank on him by placing a souvenir shop on top of the Matterhorn (with a little help by a helicopter) just before he did a tour there. He was furious... I remember seeing the skit on TV as a child. Did not understand the travesty / parody behind the idea but still it was very funny.

The closest I’ve gotten to this is using Old Spice “matterhorn” deodorant in my middle school gym class. It was an equally challenging experience.

Love the new animation

I can so see this being a movie!

Something @Extra Credits didn't mention was how hard the altitude is From my experience (mountaineering is a hobby of mine) taking a step at 12000 feet makes you feel like you have just sprinted 100 METERS! Altitude is the killer of mountaineering Also fun fact Matterhorn and Everest are not the hardest/most dangerous mountain to climb That would be Annapurna 1 it is 26000 feet or so and has a fatality rate of 30% so good luck climbing that!

Amazing story! I love how you look into history that isn't as common.

I remember Rob saying he wants to do a series on mountain climbing.

Goddangit Extra History now you have made me want to climb the Matterhorn..

I love the reference to a painting at 0:13 My grandad has the same one on his wall

I live in Colorado and climb a lot of mountains from the early spring through fall I'm geeking out a bit right now

Mountain climbing is one of the sports I love doing

My grandffather actually was a mountainclimber, het loved the mountains and he asked my grandmother the scatter his ashes there.. And we decided to do so on the Matterhorn after he died. We (as a family from the Netherlands) still hike up the Matterhorn every 5 years to honour him.

@stephaniewilliams6756

Жыл бұрын

Whatever

not just nice to hear about mountain climbing but about this era in general and how they experienced it versus how we see it today with all our advanced gear and procedure that we ultimately have this era to thank for

The start of the path to the Hornili hut (on the site of Wymper’s bivouac) passes through Zermatt churchyard. It reminds you of the risks. Lucy Walker is commemorated in the Mont Blanc massif with her name being given to the Walker spur on the grande jorasses

the Matterhorn is quite the impressive view from a distance, cant imagine actually climbing the thing, quite amazing

that intro was great

You mentioned the Northwestern pass... Does that mean will get a series on the infamous Franklin expedition???

We need one on the northwest passage

Nice work, can’t believe you pit first in a caption lol

If you are interested in covering other mountaineering stories I have always been inspired by local legend Putrid Pete Schoening heroics on K2 known as The Belay. Would be cool to see a video on that.

meanwhile, the mad lad Hannibal: "Hmmm....what if we marched some elephants through here tho?"

"Hey guys, I am the first man to do this incredibly stupid thing!" "No, that's not true, I did that first!!" "Well I'm going to be the first woman to do that incredibly stupid thing!"

Two words power source!

looking how extreme people can limb off shear cliffs holding on by their wrists. creatures designed to walk great distances instead are able to hoist ourselves up the tallest of rock is nothing but amazing

@rosiehawtrey

3 жыл бұрын

98% chimpanzee..

I read 'Banner in the Sky' as an 11-year old. I was fascinated by mountain climbing. But, alas, I'm nowhere near coordinated enough to go very far.

can you make a video about Ataturk's life as well I love ur videos

How terrifying would it have been to be in that fall... like wow. Also, why did they tie themselves together? It’s hard enough to hold yourself onto a rock face, imagine two adults attached to you and falling. I’m floored that he was able to hold on

Thanks for the numbers in Meters :)

Goat KZreadr

Mountain climbing now? I didn't expect that. I am happily suprised.🙂

If you think *that's bad, beware of the Matterhorn's evil twin- the Anti-Matterhorn.

What a fucking unusual topics Extra History is picking this year.

God I'd love to see you guys cover the Northwest Passage, with both the failed and successful ships!

I vizeted the climbers grave yard in zermont it is vary sobering for a climber to see. I have been climbing for 10 years all over the country dert bagging is the best

My favorite ride I was on after the incredibles coaster🗣🗣🗣

Nice

Can you update you history playlist because I can’t find some eps there that should be there

This is super nit picky, but the Italian side should get more direct sunlight than the Swiss side. I found the reference for that drawing and only the top is in shadow. Might not be important for the story, but it’s one of the things that makes the Matterhorn deceiving. I have heard the last part of the Italian side was really dangerous.

Plutarch once stated: "No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune"

When you taunt your competition you taunt chance, because chance is always moments behind.

damn. only back then when you actually had real feelings for someone dying, even when you barely knew eachother. F to pay respects.

@sarasamaletdin4574

3 жыл бұрын

People can have feelings too now. It depends on the person.

yes

5:02 ...thus beginning a century of rumors about human-like apes who throw rocks at climbers and hikers...lol

While I understand the appeal of mountaineering, I've never been able to muster the courage for it myself 😅

Imagen a mount Everest video.

@RabidlyTaboo

3 жыл бұрын

why? k2 would be much better. it has taken more lives.

Please, make a video on temerlane!