Article: the First Ascent of the Matterhorn - Europes Most Formidable Peak Yielded More to Logic Than Strength --- E. Whymper Won the Matterhorn. His Account is the Basis for This Article

by Frederick Lewis Allen

Print Magazine

Published January 1, 1945

About the author

A graduate of Groton, Frederick Lewis Allen graduated from Harvard in 1912 and earned his master's from there in 1913. Allen was assistant and associate editor of Harper's Magazine for eighteen years, then the magazine's sixth editor in chief from 1941 until shortly before his death. He was also known for a series of contemporary histories that were published during a period of growing interest in the subject among the reading public.