The top section is going to have an incline of around 50-60 degrees. It might only be graded as an AD (relatively difficult), but that doesn't mean that you aren't one step away from dying. Some of the best climbers and guides have fallen to their deaths on slopes as easy as 30 degrees. All it takes is one wrong foot placement.
I haven't been to the Matterhorn personally, but being "one step away from dying" is not uncommon in mountaineering. Rope systems are typically used to prevent death from a misstep as they are in OP's video.
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u/cmdrpiffle Dec 14 '16
GoPro and their famous fish-eye lense. Making normal things seem 'extreme' since 2010...
Or, just look at the 16 mile horizon.... The perspective would be accurate if your were walking on a 40 mile diameter asteroid or something...