On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the most famous Mountain in the World, and at mid-day, on the 29th that conquest was completed by the bioscoping of the marvellous panorama from the actual summit of the Matterhorn, 14,780 feet above the level of the sea.
Christian Burgener, the leading guide of the Expedition, is one of the best men in the Alps, with him were the well- known Zermatt Guides, Gabriel Zumtaugwald, Joseph Taugwalder, Peter Perren, and Felix Julen.
Herr Dethleffsen of Berne, accompanied the Expedition, together with the porters who carried the apparatus and provisions, while the organizing and photographing were carried out by Mr. F. Ormiston-Smith, the eminent mountaineering photographer.
The following series of pictures which illustrate the entire ascent of the Matterhorn, are probably the most wonderful bioscopic pictures ever taken in the face of tremendous difficulty and danger.
Such renowned portions of the mountain, as the Old Cabane (the scene of Mr. Whymper's first exploits); the Shoulder (where four of the first party who ever trod the summit, met their deaths during the descent;, and the marvellous summit ridge and incomparable panorama arc included ; so that, the result of this Bioscope ascent is likely to rival in interest the famous ascent of 1865, when all the World rang with the news of the conquest of the, Matterhorn, and its terrible vengeance.p. 52-53.
The Charles Urban Trading Company, We Put the World Before You By Means of The Bioscope and Urban Films, novembre 1903, p. 52-53.