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| brade | Winter Solo  Date Climbed: Mar 16, 2009 | |
| March 16, 2009 after an unsucessful attempt from 2007 I soloed Lagginhorn in winter. Bivouac in tent on 3000m. Rather bad snow conditions and dangerous ice near the summit slowed my ascent and add some spice to it. Traverses were unpleasent. Lagginhorn is an interesting goal for winter ascents but only with hard snow. September 24, 2007 Want to touch chaos? try Lagginhorn - most illogical 4000m pile of stone I've ever seen. Climbed with Jck (Jacek) but 200 m below summit I just fall asleep. | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2009 7:22 am | ||
| skileraar | Traverse from Fletschorn Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2005 | |
| Nice climbing on the North Ridge of the Lagginhorn! | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2008 7:44 am | ||
| Jurgen | Normal route Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2008 | |
| Lots of snow on the normal route. We had to make a track together with another group. An easy climb, but enjoyable. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2008 12:53 pm | ||
| John Climber | Almost winter conditions in the spring! Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2008 | |
| Me, Joker VK and another colleague reached the top in 6 hours from the Weissmieshutte with hard conditions over the (North)West ridge. Avalanche risk on the faces forced us to follow this line, full with deep snow. Snowshoes were useful till the top. Descending with snowshoes was a little bit tricky. We made use of a half-day opening in the weather. A snow-fall catched ud while descending over the same route. 5 hours to descend. | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2008 9:52 am | ||
| Cyrill | Lagginhorn 4010m Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2004 | |
| Great tour to Lagginhorn 4010m my picture are here: Link to Lagginhorn 4010m | |
| Posted Nov 8, 2007 12:38 pm | ||
| Sebastian Hamm | Solo Date Climbed: Nov 4, 2007 | |
| Solo-climb on normal route. I drove by car to Kreuzboden ;-) and stayed in the winter-room of Weissmies-hut. Started at 6 a.m. The glacier was heavily cracking many times. A little bit scary. Much snow on the last 350 meters. Little bit tricky, but o.k. | |
| Posted Nov 5, 2007 3:03 am | ||
| alpspitze | Normal Route from Weissmiesshutte Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2000 | |
| Pretty Straightforward Tour With Some Friends From Germany. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2007 8:52 am | ||
| jck | W ridge Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2007 | |
| Climbing with Radek (brade). Did it in one day- Unneri Brende- Tewald- Kreuzboden- Weissmies Hut- Lagginhorn and back, without any cable cars. Very exhausting. Despite some snow near the summit crampons and ice axe was unnecessary. Words to describe the route: boring, pointless, irrational, illogical... Just a pile of stones, quite long scrambling. You have to choose between Lagginhorn and Weissmies? Definitely the second one. | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2007 7:38 am | ||
| Nikman | Normal route solo Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2007 | |
| Technically not hard and safe to go solo (what I did). The last 200 meters to the summit had some blank ice, so it needed the use of crampons. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2007 9:16 am | ||
| nicowuyts | Normal from Weissmiesshutte Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2007 | |
| We first followed the trail towards Fletschhorn and took a right on the actual start of the Lagginhorn ridge. I was happy that the conditions were excellent, especially the firn on the upper part pleased me, 'cause of the variation it brings to this mountain. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2007 8:26 am | ||
| Jani Kolehmainen | Route climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2007 | |
| Quite exceptional snow conditions this year I understand. Made it from Weissmieshütte in 6h40m. Nice and easy route with enjoyable climbing. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2007 2:24 am | ||
| Griffiths | Normal Route Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2004 | |
| Summit in good weather - scramble was fun | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2007 12:58 pm | ||
| edderkoppen | snow and ice Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2007 | |
| Went up there on my own June 30th. This was an ice and snow climb from about 3500. Not to be underestimated as a "hike" during summer. Maybe at end of summer..or some years with less than normal snow. Nice and quite exposed summit. Talked to some British climbers who also felt it WAS harder than they had imagined.. | |
| Posted Jun 30, 2007 12:19 pm | ||
| gogo | W ridge | |
| My first "4000"... Got to the top but seen nothing at all... fog/clouds and a little of snow, surely with a different weather it would have been better... | |
| Posted Jan 6, 2007 3:38 pm | ||
| Andrew Hagen | W ridge Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2006 | |
| Climbed a little late in the day (because we started at Almagellerhutte and did Weissmies first). Didn't need crampons to get up (so it's true what they say), but used them on the way down because it was just so slippery! | |
| Posted Oct 2, 2006 4:18 pm | ||
| JanVanGenk | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2006 | |
| Alone all the way up and down, except of four climbers I met near the summit. Rather demanding scrambling at some places, I deviated from the (original) route a couple of times. Spent about 40 minutes alone at the summit enjoying the views around! | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2006 4:39 pm | ||
| Eelconl | Solo bij bike and hike Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006 | |
| The day before I started with my mountainbike from Brig to Saas Almagell where I slepped. The next morning I started by bike again to Kreuzboden, where I hide it. From here I hiked up to the top and all the way back to Brig again | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2006 11:16 am | ||
| Erik Van Genechten | One 4000er less to go Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006 | |
| We opened the route for the summer. And it took us a lot of sweat too. Still lot's of snow, and not the hard kind that we all wished for. It took us a gruelling 13 hours to go up and back. But we made it, all seven of us in two cordees. Started of with good weather, but ended up in a snowstorm on our way down. A good choice for your first 4000er. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2006 7:36 pm | ||
| schmid_th | Cold and windy! Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2004 | |
| Together with 4 friends we made the west ridge it was cold and windy - but nice to climb. We climbed the complete ridge in the rocks and needed no crampons. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2006 2:31 pm | ||
| siroco | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2006 | |
| Inhabituel pour l'été le Laggin recouvert de neige | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2006 9:48 pm | ||
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