The Matterhorn is a mountain of the Alps , straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy .
It was studied by Horace in the late eighteenth century. It remained unclimbed after most of the other great alpine peaks had been attained and became the subject of an international competition for the summit.
The north face was not climbed until 1931 and is amongst the three north faces of the Alps, known as ” The Trilogy “.
It is mainly composed of gneisses, lying over ophiolites and sedimentary rocks of penninic nappes.
The mountains đź—» current shape is the result of cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from the peak, such as the Matterhorn Glacier.
In addition , the steep faces of the mountain and its isolated location make it prone to banner clouds formation, with the air flowing around the mountain producing condensation of the air on the Lee side and also creating vortices.
The Matterhorn had been a part of the Swiss federal inventory of natural monuments since 1983.
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