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| highpointa | Via west ridge  Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2012 | |
| Fought firece winds on the west ridge but prevailed while many other parties came undone that day. | ||
| Posted Jun 18, 2013 7:38 pm | ||
| Valtho | Silbersattel Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2012 | |
| Due to 1 meter fresh snow a few days before we could only reach the summit via the Silbersattel. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2012 9:43 am | ||
| selinunte01 | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2012 | |
| from the usually fully booked new Monte Rosa Hütte. Good conditions up to Sattel, very hard snow and iced rocks on the summit ridge - perfect sunny day. Agony in my feet when walking back to Rotenboden station. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2012 10:38 am | ||
| goodwilson | Normal Route Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2011 | |
| Climbed the peak after Matterhorn | |
| Posted Nov 12, 2011 2:18 pm | ||
| markhallam | Normal route via tented camp Date Climbed: Sep 30, 1991 | |
| Climbed this route right at the end of the season, last few days of September that year - very cold, but fantastic views especially down into Italy. Carried full camping gear to the top intending to traverse the mountain, but the ridge was plastered in unstable powder snow so we ended up carrying it all back down the way we came. | |
| Posted Dec 29, 2010 1:48 am | ||
| Ivona | start from bivy at Utere Plattje Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2010 | |
| great snow conditions,good weather but very windy and cold day.Me and my colleague Ania reached the ridge and backed from the last snow pitch before the summit because of Ania's problems with frozen hands and feet.Very long way down via deep and big cravesses made impression on us.Mountain worth of coming back | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2010 12:48 pm | ||
| Buthrakaur | normal route Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2009 | |
| Perfect weather, nice climb. | ||
| Posted Mar 26, 2010 4:45 pm | ||
| project360 | Best climb so far... Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2009 | |
| Perfect night, great climb, I love the mountains | |
| Posted Oct 14, 2009 11:17 pm | ||
| boriskrielen | Route climbed: westridge solo Date Climbed: Oct 5, 2009 | |
| Climbed the normal route solo a few days ago. Weather started nice. When reaching the summitridge clouds came in with a strong wind,makning the final part quite exciting. Descending in a complete whiteout was also time consuming. Especially cause most snowbridges had by now disappeared. Plan was at first tomake a double with Nordend, but unfortunately the weather had other plans. Will be back one day for Nordend. :-) | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2009 8:30 am | ||
| sokolxxx | Normal from Schweiz Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2008 | |
| Alone... nice | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2009 5:33 pm | ||
| mooliczek | Normal Route from MRH Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2009 | |
| We had an incredible luck with only one day of a good weather. Started at 3:30 AM from a bivy at Untere Plattje, we reached the summit 7 hours later. Great snow conditions at start, got bit nasty later on, in the afternoon. The summit ridge was mid-covered with snow, some tough ice found also there. We got back to our bivy at 4 PM. Very satisfied! Trip report (in Polish) and some pictures from our climb - see here | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2009 11:28 am | ||
| philo | Polish day on Dufourspitze Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2009 | |
| We climbed Dufourspitze via normal route from our tents puttend on 3300 m (above Monte Rosa Hutte). It was a polish day on that mountain becasuse all 4 teams that climbed it via normal route were polish. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2009 3:57 pm | ||
| hernberg | On the summit at sunrise Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2009 | |
| Normal route from our camp above the monte rosa hut | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2009 4:01 am | ||
| cackalackyclimber | Normal Route Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2008 | |
| Made it to the beginning of the rock above the icy slope around 4500m and had to turn back due to temps of -13C & winds around 100k/hr. We had to turn back the day before much lower down also due to poor conditions. 50cm of fresh snow on the glaciers also made the going a bit more difficult. Despite tough conditions and missing the summit, it was a tremendous climb with unparalleled scenery! | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2009 1:53 pm | ||
| JanVanGenk | Normal route Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2009 | |
| Climbed from a bivouac site a few hundred meters above the Monte Rosa hut. Cold, windy (especially the summit ridge), lots of snow on the summit ridge. Some tricky solo climbing on the ridge. Great views! The weather closed in as soon as I climbed down from the summit. | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2009 12:15 pm | ||
| bergnasenbaer | finale | |
| A Great final peak for my tour on monterosa. Look for it at: www.bergsuechtig.de | |
| Posted Sep 20, 2008 1:45 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | Normal Route, Traverse to Margherita Hut Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2008 | |
| Started at the Margherita Hut at 3am, reached the summit around 10:30am. The traverse looked dicey, with a lot of snow-covered rock and unprotected moves, which, while easy, were often quite exposed. Long day, but rather exciting. | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2008 4:54 am | ||
| Riccardo | From Capanna Margherita Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2004 | |
| A wonderful day :-) Panoramic views from Dufour | |
| Posted Feb 11, 2008 4:14 am | ||
| Cyrill | Dufourspitze 4634m Date Climbed: May 23, 2005 | |
| Beautiful Skitour to Dufourspitze 4634m. my picture are here: Link to Dufourspitze 4634m | |
| Posted Nov 9, 2007 3:09 am | ||
| gharley | Normal Route Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2007 | |
| The ascent was great. 14 of 18 climbers summitted that morning. It took Scott and I 7hrs 15 min to summit from Monte Rosa hut. Most decended down the east side between Nordend and Dufour, though we took the west ridge back due to a traffic jam. The down hill was long but we could glissade a bit. After a beer and some recovery time, we hiked back to Rotenboden to get back to town. The hike back to Rotenboden felt MUCH MUCH longer than on the way to the hut! Tips: definitely scout out the moraine and crevasses the day before you climb. the path to ob plattje goes straight up through the middle of the moraine. follow the cairns. I have a much more detailed account, pics, and video of the climb on my blog, though it could be considered a spoiler, your choice. http://gabeharley.blogspot.com | ||
| Posted Aug 27, 2007 1:05 pm | ||
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