Disneyland mountaineers, Hans, Otto, and Fritz, climb the park’s 147-foot-tall Matterhorn in 1960.

 

Shortly after the Matterhorn’s construction in 1959, the park started employing climbers to go up the mountain multiple times a day, up through the late 1970s, when the mountain underwent a major renovation. After that, the climbers were more of an occasional sighting, though it’s my understanding that the park revived the daily climbs in 2012 and has been doing them since.

Fun fact! Since the climb doesn’t take all that long, the park installed a basketball hoop and half-court inside of the mountain so that the climbers had something to do in their downtime between shows.