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The Matterhorn. An invincible mountain - until 150 years ago. It all changed on the 14th July 1865, when two mountaineer groups raced to the top, wanting to be the first to reach the peak of the majestic mountain. The British-Swiss team were victorious. But the triumph soon turned into tragedy. During the descent, four mountaineers tragically died. But was it an unfortunate accident, or sabotage? Or even murder?
The documentary «Tatort Matterhorn» - produced by the Swiss television channel SRF - tries to solve the case that led to the dramatic happenings on the Swiss Alps.

Since the 1950s, adventurers from all over the world have been travelling to Nepal and trying to climb its summit (8,167 metres). To date, some 400 mountaineers have made it, and 70 have died on the remote mountain. In 'Adventure Dhaulagiri' Himalayan pioneers and their successors tell the dramatic story of the white mountain, what the Dhaulagiri is called in Nepali. With Richard Bolt, the leader of the Swiss Dhaulagiri Jubilee Expedition, who 50 years after the first ascends of Dhaulagiri following the footsteps of Swiss Himalayan pioneers, and the members of the 1960 expedition, who travel to nepal to remember his expedition: Kaspar Winterhalter, Max Eiselin, Peter Diener, Ernst Forrer and Kurt Diemberger.

On 13 May 1960, a Swiss expedition achieved the first ascent of the Dhaulagiri. The Dhaulagiri (8167 m) was at that time the highest still unconquered eight-thousand-metre peak and, due to its unpredictable weather, was considered a 'mountain without mercy'. 50 years after the first ascent of the Dhaulagiri, the mountaineers of that time return to the place of their great triumph. A DOK team accompanies the three veterans around the Dhaulagiri to the former base camp (4700 m) and to the French Col (5360 m), where one has the most beautiful view of the Dhaulagiri.

Terra X - Tatort Matterhorn is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Matterhorn. It was directed by Tilman Remme in 2015 and produced by SRF. It features David Göttler, Pen Hadow, Stephen Venables, Benedikt Perren, Christian Schwarzenegger, Craig Fletcher and others.