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| buxlex | Route Climbed: From Sella - Felik Date Climbed: 5-6 October 1996  | |
| Two perfect days. No wind, no haze ... only Bettaforca's Chair lifts were closed (we were in October there), and get up/back from/to Stafal (Gressoney la Trinitè) was tremendous! | |
| Posted Oct 27, 2002 6:48 am | ||
| Farmer | Route Climbed: normalroute from bivacco rossi e volente Date Climbed: aug 96 | |
| Short and easy tour from bivac about 2h..... Perfect view at sunrise. Same day we climbed its little brother Pollux. | |
| Posted Oct 9, 2002 11:59 am | ||
| Chandra | Route Climbed: normal route from Rif. Quintino Sella Date Climbed: July 8th, 2002 | |
| We had a perfect day. The weather was so good that even Monviso seemed to be in the nearby neighbourhood. | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2002 6:31 am | ||
| Mathias Zehring | Route Climbed: SW-flank and traverse to Sella hut Date Climbed: August 8th 2000 | |
| In the morning we had climbed the Pollux. Climbing the steep slopes of the Castor in the strong sun at noon was not really funny. On the summits big clouds occured and we hurried down to the Sella hut to avoid getting into a thunderstorm. | |
| Posted Sep 10, 2002 2:50 pm | ||
| kletterwebbi | Route Climbed: WNW-Flank Date Climbed: 1. September 2002 | |
| Only a few hours of good weather allowed us to reach the summit. Less people but a lot of new snow. Nice route, especially the final summit ridge is somewhat exposed. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2002 11:44 pm | ||
| Tom Fralich | Route Climbed: WNW Flank Date Climbed: August 25, 2002 | |
| Set off to climb despite two days of bad weather in Zermatt and more in the forecast. Conditions were OK initially, but a bad storm hit just as we reached the bottom of the face. Visibility was minimal and there was no track, which made navigating the glacier somewhat difficult. We reached the foresummit (4205 m) after some steep ice climbing and found very poor snow conditions on the summit ridge (lots of new, poorly consolidated snow, blown into a sharp knife edge by the wind). We started towards the summit but turned around about 15m short, having deemed the conditions too dangerous to allow a safe descent. The storm worsened as we returned to the Klein Matterhorn and on the Breithorn plateau visibility was limited to about 10m. It's easy to see how people have become lost there and died only a few hundred meters from the cable car. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2002 8:45 am | ||
| Gertiño | Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: 7 july 2002 | |
| Coming from the Rifugio Guide de Ayas, we reached the summit around 9 AM. Perfect weather conditions with a wonderful view. Further down to Rifugio Quintino Sella. | ||
| Posted Jul 21, 2002 10:09 am | ||
| Luidger | Route Climbed: Italian normal route Date Climbed: 08/14/1999 | |
| My first alpine 4000m-peak. Relatively easy glacier trip. The snow ridge is a bit exposed. Perfect views of Monviso, Gran Paradiso, Mt. Blanc, Matterhorn, Monte Rosa, ... | |
| Posted Dec 15, 2001 2:36 am | ||
| schadik | Route Climbed: normal route Date Climbed: 1999 | |
| just one more 4000 on the Monte Rosa tour. | |
| Posted Nov 25, 2001 6:07 am | ||
| Oyvind Lind Petersen | Route Climbed: Kleine Matterhorn, south of Breithorn and Pollux Date Climbed: July 20 1999 | |
| I teamed up with a guide and a german guy. We had to stop at 4.000 meter because of the germans bad leg and my broken crampoon. I've be back. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2001 12:01 pm | ||
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