Noted Alp

• Noted for its distinctive shape
• Four-faced peak
• Bugler's high point?
• Mont Cervin
• A mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy (14,780 feet high)
• Pointy Swiss Alp
• Alpinist's challenge

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Alpine mountain, from German Matte "meadow, pastureland" (see mead (n.2)) + Horn (see horn (n.)). So called for its horn-like shape.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Matterhorn is a peak , high, surmounting the north wall of Taylor Valley , Antarctica, between Lacroix Glacier and Matterhorn Glacier. It was so named by Griffith Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott , 1910–13, because ...