Biography
Uri Canton, Switzerland
Born on a stormy night in the Swiss canton of Uri, Lorenzo von Matterhorn arrived into this world under circumstances that his biographers would later describe as "meteorologically significant." His father, the renowned industrialist and amateur geologist Count Heinrich von Matterhorn, reportedly declared the storm "a sign" moments before Lorenzo spoke his first words — at four hours old.
He was educated simultaneously at Oxford, the Sorbonne, and MIT through a correspondence arrangement that the institutions have since described as "unprecedented and not entirely sanctioned." By nineteen, he had defended three doctoral dissertations, climbed six of the seven summits, and been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit by a country he declines to name.
He has been described by peers as "unsettlingly accomplished," by rivals as "possibly not one person," and by Le Monde as "the only man we have ever been afraid to fact-check."
Today, Lorenzo divides his time between his twelve residences, his research vessel the Prometheus II, and the occasional state dinner at which he is invariably the most interesting person present. He does not have a publicist. He does not need one.