In 1937 Luis Trenker played the Italian climber Carrel in both the German and British accounts of Whymper's conquest of the Matterhorn (the German version was also adapted for the Italian market as La Grande Conquista). The films shared the Trenker-directed sequences shot on and around the mountain, but the Korda-produced British version added several interior scenes, including some set in London. Trenker said at the time that 'there is very little difference between the two versions: mine has more outdoors and less in'. The British version also added a map after the explanatory prologue, so that its local audience could locate exactly the most famous mountain in Europe: Later in the film, an animated graphic is provided to illustrate the progress of the competing Italian and British parties: There are no such visual aids in Trenker's version, and there is only one map in the whole film. It is on the table when Carrel is invited to an eminent person's house to discuss climbing the Matterhorn. His host has a magnifying glass in his hand, as if he had been studying the map, but no one looks at the map in the course of this sequence. Instead, Carrel uses the scale model of the mountain to illustrate the route he would take to the summit:
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