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The Ascent of the Matterhorn

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The ascent of the Matterhorn by the Hornli Ridge, filmed in July 1913 by Frederick Burlingham. The team, composed of Burlingham and four mountain guides from Zermatt, carried the 15-kilo camera and the 10-kilo tripod to the top the mountain to film the summit of the Matterhorn. Frederick Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinomatographed the Matterhorn', was a traveller cinematographer and one of the mountain film pioneers. Continuing the mountain film tradition established by Ormiston-Smith, Burlingham filmed several mountaineering films largely in Switzerland, taking mountain film in a new direction of immediacy and perceived peril.

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  • switzerland
  • mountain
  • mountaineer
  • europe
  • climbing
  • black and white
  • mountain climbing
  • alps mountains
  • swiss alps
  • mountaineering
  • mountain country
  • european

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    • Theatricaldate of release is a roughly estimated guess1 Jul 1913

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