The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_ascent_of_the_Matterhorn" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First ascent of the Matterhorn">first ascent of the Matterhorn</a> is completed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Whymper" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edward Whymper">Edward Whymper</a> and his party, four of whom die on the descent.<sup about="#mwt92" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_14#cite_note-15" id="mwfw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwgA">[15]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><cite about="#mwt89" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWhymper1871">Whymper, Edward (1871). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/scramblesamongs02whymgoog" id="mwBV0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBV4">Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69</i></a>. London: John Murray. pp.<span id="mwBV8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>387–389<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBWA">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBWE">12 July</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt89" class="Z3988" id="mwBWI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Scrambles+Amongst+the+Alps+in+the+Years+1860%E2%80%9369&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=387-389&amp;rft.pub=John+Murray&amp;rft.date=1871&amp;rft.aulast=Whymper&amp;rft.aufirst=Edward&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fscramblesamongs02whymgoog&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+14"></span></span>