Hi there,
I'm trying to compile a list of mountains that are known as 'The Matterhorn of....'. So for example, Cnicht as The Welsh Matterhorn, or Mount Assiniboine as the Matterhorn of the Rockies.
Anyone know any others?
Thanks!
Roseberry Topping - the Matterhorn of Cleveland
Parkhouse Hill - the Peak
Shutlingsloe - Cheshire
Chris
Not entirely sure but I think Mt Aspiring is the Matterhorn of the Southern Alps.
Belles Knott is the M of Easedale (according to Wainwright).
Machapuchare.
[.... of Nepal].
Sgurr na Ciche - " Matterhorn of Knoydart "
The Gez Matterhorn in Xinjiang China near Kongur https://www.alamy.com/gez-matterhorn-image278825424.html
There's the rather fine Matterhorn rock on Grey Friar:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5842804
I once found a similar one in the eastern glen between Ben More and Stob Binnein, but I don't think that has a name.
Craig Leith is the Eiger of Alva.
I've seen Ama Dablam given the title.
Shivling is the Matterhorn of the Himalayas I think.
That does look like the matterhorn. I'll take a close look next time I'm there.
Nick Bullock in echoes refers to Jirishanca as "the Matterhorn of Peru".
There's Matterhorn Ridge (VD) in Winnats Pass. Tilt your head to 45 degrees, squint (and drink heavily) and you can sort of see it.
> Nick Bullock in echoes refers to Jirishanca as "the Matterhorn of Peru".
My better half reckons that the pointy Meall Garbh bit on the Tarmachan ridge is like Machu Picchu.
> I've seen Ama Dablam given the title.
> Shivling is the Matterhorn of the Himalayas I think.
Ah. A bit of googling suggests that Shivling was simply called 'Matterhorn Peak' and that it was Ama Dablam that had the '.... of the Himalayas' suffix.
I seem to recall that Fred East once had a job that involved climbing a papier-mâché Matterhorn at Disneyland in Los Angeles. I've no idea what its full title was!
> Sgurr na Ciche - " Matterhorn of Knoydart "
Yep. There's also Cir Mhor, "Matterhorn of Arran" - and Suilven, "Scotland's Matterhorn".
I think this labelling happens to pretty much any reasonably pointy, rocky hill that isn't close to a pointer, rockier one, though.
Matterhorn boulder at Almscliff...
Grisdale Pike is referred to as "The Matterhorn of the Lake District" in some walking guides, though obviously not by anyone local or, in fact, anyone who has seen the Matterhorn.
The matterhorn of Henley-on-Thames.
Literally.
https://thegardenstrust.blog/2019/05/04/the-henley-matterhorn/
There's a boulder at Chamarande known as 'le Cervin', with several routes including L' Arete de Zmutt
Zimba, the Matterhorn of Vorarlberg/Montafon
Manamcho - the Matterhorn of Tibet
penicillin is good for matterhorn
Mt Aspiring, definitely Matterhorn of the Southern Alps.
More tongue in cheek, but have heard it locally, Sky Tip - the Matterhorn of the Cornish Alps...
https://www.staustellvoice.co.uk/news/0/article/5192/
I prefer to think of it more as the Alpamayo.
The Romsdalshorn, the Matterhorn of Norway (although I would disagree and say Stetind). Not that either of these are remotely similar to the Matterhorn apart from the fact that they are pointy. The Romsdalshorn is a walk up to a final pinacle of about 1000 feet of Severe, or a long and serious scramble mostly on gravel (OK maybe a bit like the Hornli Ridge). Stetind is a 4000 foot pillar of beautiful granite.
P.S. The Innerdalstarnet is also known as the Matterhorn of Norway but this is really pushing it as it is a fraction of the size and you can get up it via a sunday afternoon style scramble.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/photos/dbpage.php?id=244190
https://www.summitpost.org/romsdalshorn/617536
https://www.summitpost.org/stetind/152870
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerdalst%C3%A5rnet
P.P.S. I can't seem to find a source for the Romsdalshorn being called the Norwegian Matterhorn, I think I read it in a magazine somewhere in Norway.
The Weisshorn is often referred to as the Matterhorn of the Swiss Alps and looking at it you can see why.
Toblerone is the Matterhorn of Swiss chocolate.
> The Weisshorn is often referred to as the Matterhorn of the Swiss Alps and looking at it you can see why.
That doesn't make much sense, seeing that the Matterhorn is just opposite the Weisshorn and they're in full view of each other. Also, great and grand as it is, the Weisshorn has none of the unique 'singularity' and sculptural savagery of the Matterhorn.
The Matterhorn of Bodmin - Sharp Tor!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cornishbirdblog.com/2020/01/25/sharp-tor-bodmi...
Roseberry Topping is often remarked to look like the Matterhorn. In miniature. I’ve yet to hear it called The Matterhorn of North Yorkshire however. “The mini Matterhorn” is sometimes used.
Wittenham Clumps - the, err, Matterhorns of southern Oxfordshire
Vercenik, in the Kackar Daglar of Turkey is often compared to the Matterhorn.
I've always known Roseberry Topping as The Matterhorn of the North"
Its a lovely summit!
> That doesn't make much sense, seeing that the Matterhorn is just opposite the Weisshorn and they're in full view of each other.
It doesn’t. But they aren’t opposite each other. Perhaps you are thinking of Dent Blanche?
The conical, volcano-like spoil heap at Red Lake on Dartmoor is somewhat Matterhornish.
Sugar Loaf, the Matterhorn of Abergavenny isn't it.
Assiniboine is sometimes known as the Matterhorn of the Rockies (and it's a big pile of choss like the Matterhorn). Though Barry Blanchard recons that as Assiniboine is geologically older, the Matterhorn should be known as the Assiniboine of the Alps.
> Assiniboine is sometimes known as the Matterhorn of the Rockies (and it's a big pile of choss like the Matterhorn). Though Barry Blanchard recons that as Assiniboine is geologically older, the Matterhorn should be known as the Assiniboine of the Alps.
With such a prominent peak you'd think it would have a local, native name. I can't find one though. Assiniboine is a local tribe but what did they call it?
> Toblerone is the Matterhorn of Swiss chocolate.
To my disliker: did you break a tooth on it?
Grisedale Pike, the Matterhorn of Lakeland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_references_to_the_Matterhorn#Nickname...
The Uja di Mondrone is sometimes referred to by locals as the Matterhorn of the Valli di Lanzo in northern Italy.
> It doesn’t. But they aren’t opposite each other. Perhaps you are thinking of Dent Blanche?
I expressed myself badly. I didn't mean literally next to each other, but the north face of the Matterhorn faces the Zinal Rothorn and the Weisshorn. I've been on the top of the Rothorn and taken pictures in either direction of the Matterhorn and the Weisshorn. What i really meant was that they are in (quite) close sight of each other.
BTW, I still have my wonderful 'Zermatt und Umgebung' map dating from 1966/67 showing all the walking and climbing I did there with my brother at the age of 16/17:
https://www.gordonstainforthbelper.co.uk/images/ZermattUndU.jpg
> Yep. There's also Cir Mhor, "Matterhorn of Arran" - and Suilven, "Scotland's Matterhorn".
how can we forget Matterhorn of Skye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clach_Glas
And here, following from my last, are some pictures taken from the summit of the Zinal Rothorn at the time on a Kodak Brownie camera. Clockwise from top L: Matterhorn, Dent Blanche, self with Weisshorn behind, Heinrich Taugwalder:
https://www.gordonstainforthbelper.co.uk/images/ViewsfromZRothorn1966.jpg
> how can we forget Matterhorn of Skye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clach_Glas
About the only one that's been mentioned that really does deserve the epithet. One of the greatest summits in Britain.
It's much more Matterhorn-like, though, from the north side:
https://www.ukhillwalking.com/photos/dbpage.php?id=304018
> Grisedale Pike, the Matterhorn of Lakeland
I've never heard it referred to as that in almost 50 years of walking around the Lakes. I can't recall Wainwright calling it such either. Must be a GoLakes (or whatever the hell they call it now) invention.
wonder if Ashley Abraham started all this?
i also missed Kalna's post upthead where he said it's mentioned in some guidebooks..
Lots of snow and ice still there...Very different today.
> The conical, volcano-like spoil heap at Red Lake on Dartmoor is somewhat Matterhornish.
Red Lake is the Dartmoor volcano, everyone knows Stapleton Tor is the Dartmoor Matterhorn 😀
> With such a prominent peak you'd think it would have a local, native name. I can't find one though. Assiniboine is a local tribe but what did they call it?
You’d think, but no one knows. It was enlightened in 1885 to name it after the local First Nation, rather than any number of rich or politically prominent old white men. Or even worse, something like the ‘Squaw’s Tit’ above Canmore!
> Or even worse, something like the ‘Squaw’s Tit’ above Canmore!
You mean like Sgurr na Ciche or the Paps of Jura? As for The Devil's Point, I won't even start.
I'll bet there probably is a native name but it didn't go down well with the Victorian white explorers.
Probably 'The Mountain' - just like any local, anywhere.
Just seen a Mali Matterhorn ('Little Matterhorn) easy of Skrlatica in the Julian Alps of Slovenia.
LoL. That made me chuckle. Nice spot for a swim too.
Just stumbled on this but if you're still compiling your list there is Yari ga Take, the matterhorn of the Japan alps.
Cheers
There's one on skye, next to the path on the walk out of Coire lagan.
Billinge Hill....The Matterhorn of Wigan
Bernia - the 'Matterhorn of the Costa Blanca', especially when seen from Guadalest
> Billinge Hill....The Matterhorn of Wigan
Nah. If you're old enough to remember the Wigan Alps (aka the Three Sisters or Abram Alps) one of them was much more of a Matterhorn.