Matterhorn Peak is located in the Sierra Nevada, in California, at the northern boundary of Yosemite National Park.

The peak also supports the Sierra's northernmost glacier system.

Jack Kerouac, in The Dharma Bums (1958), describes a hike up and a run down the mountain.

This led to the classic observation, "You can't fall off a mountain.

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