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| radson | Perfect Weather  Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2009 | |
| Not as crowded as feared. Fun climb, descent was a bit monotonous towards the end. Overall a lot more fun than I expected. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2009 4:43 am | ||
| Jek | Hörnligrat Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2007 | |
| It was just second ascent in my life to 4000m peak. Though there was realy many people it was amazing climb and experience for me. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2009 9:41 pm | ||
| alejandro | Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2004 | |
| It was a life-time achievement. Once fitness and weather conditions permitted an opportunity to ascend, I was climbing a mountain I've marveled my whole life. It was a privilege and an emotional accomplishment, culminating many previous attempts at rock climbing. Once it's over and done with, you're a more humble person, understanding that it is elements of nature that have the upper hand and you're just there to enjoy yourself and grow as a person. | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2008 9:24 pm | ||
| PeterCorneliusSpaeth | Hörnli Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2008 | |
| In good conditions. Experienced a bivouc and a heli rescue below us. | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2008 3:23 pm | ||
| Corvus | Cresta del leone / Lion ridge Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2008 | |
| Climbed in one day the Mattehorn by Lion ridge. From Duca degli Abruzzi to the summit in 5 h 30 min and the same time to go down. From the "Gran corda" to the "scala Jordan" by using crampons. Absolutely a great experience, a great feat. | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2008 7:39 am | ||
| pablo | Route Climbed: Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2008 | |
| After trying last year and early this summer (weather did not allow), this 3rd time the dream becomes true. Excellent and hard climb of 10 hours up and down: 4h30am Rolando and I leave the hut, just after Zermatt guides & their clients. 9h30am we are in the summit alone. We are in the middle of the faster and the slower ropes. Weather is good but annouced deterioration is coming up. This forecast is the reason why not too many people climbing today. We hurry down to the hut which we reach at 2h30pm. We take some refreshment and down to the telecabine which we reach at 4pm. Down to Zermatt then to enjoy some beer and typical saussages. All in all, a wonderful though tough experience enabled fundamentally by friendship with Rolando and good dose of determination and preparation. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 10:51 am | ||
| mvs | Route Climbed: Hoernli Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2008 | |
| Very worthwhile and exhausting climb! We had plenty of snow on the ridge in previous days/weeks, and even new snow the night before. It took us a long time compared to many of the times I see here (very impressive). Walking at 4:00 am. At the Solvay Hut at 8:00 am. On the summit at 11:00 am. Back to the Hoernli Hut at 7:15 pm. Out of 45-50 people attempting, it seemed that 14 (including us) made the summit. We were the last summitters by about 30 minutes, which gave wonderful solitude on the summit and the way down! With Theron Welch. (SP user "OZNID"). | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2008 11:26 am | ||
| oddsverre | Matterhorn Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2006 | |
| I'm loving it! | |
| Posted Apr 27, 2008 10:28 am | ||
| Cyrill | Matterhorn 4478m Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007 | |
| Fantastic Tour to Matterhorn 4478m. my picture are here: Link to Matterhorn 4478m | |
| Posted Nov 8, 2007 4:43 am | ||
| MasonMiller | Big day Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| Unfortuneatly a meter of new snow prevented the summit opportunity. Though it was a perfect day for climbing... self preservation came up as priority. A fantastic climb, understandable danger, loose rock is for certain, but a focused mind and steady step... this beast can be accomplished. made it about 3/4. | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2007 2:09 pm | ||
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| Jek | Re: Cresta Del Leone/Arete Du Lion | |
| We was at summit in same day ;).. Jek | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2009 9:52 pm | ||
| badyl | Lion's Ridge - 3 attempts but no success Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2006 | |
| We've had so far 3 attempts on this route, one in June, one in the end of August followed by one in September, all in 2006. Two times we reached the Carrel Hut and spend some time there but were stopped by heavy winds and snow storms, every time every piece of the route looked very different. We didn't use the normal route on this side as it was too dangerous, but went early up the couloir to the Col de Leone. This year in early July it was too dangereous to even start the route, a pity as I have enough of staying on the Italian side and next time probably we'll try from the Swiss side. Anyway I've learned a lot:)) | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2007 2:44 am | ||
| J Fox | Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2004 | |
| Despite the crowds this rates as the climb of a lifetime. I climbed this with a Scottish guide and we both had a great time. The weather was spot on and we were both climbing well. We simul-climbed the entire route and made it up and down in 7 hours, we got stuck in a lot of traffic though. Jonny thinks we could have done it in 5.5 hours if we hadn't had so many people on the mountain with us. I had heard bad things about the route quality but I thought the rock was solid, the exposure tremendous and the views to die for. Definitely a mountain worth visiting despite the crowds. | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2007 11:28 am | ||
| Britette | Matterhorn Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 19, 1996 | |
| First on the summit that day. Luckily my friend and climbing partner is one of the top guides in the area, so he made sure we were in front! Awesome climb - it jazzed me totally for the rest of the summer. | |
| Posted May 24, 2007 11:38 am | ||
| Kaallin Krimp | Hörnli Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| A perfect day, clear sky and no wind. Started out at about 4:00 and reached the summit at 7:15. We could not have a better day to try the Matterhorn. | |
| Posted Feb 12, 2007 10:31 pm | ||
| brade | Winter attempt, Hörnli route Date Climbed: Mar 20, 2006 | |
| attempt: with SP Member JCK we climbed to Solvay at 20-03-2006 holding ridge line almost all the time(!) because of powder snow on both sides(traverses were to dangerous). It was snowing half of way up. Not very difficult but risky/hard conditions. We stayed there due to huge snowfall. After 3 days we decided to get down not reaching the Summit (we had no more time to attack the top)- it took us 11 hours of descending to Hornlihutte! Felt like on snow minefield Waiting for the second chance. Read our Trip Report: Matterhorn in Winter Tastes Bittersweet | |
| Posted Jan 28, 2007 1:13 pm | ||
| Bas Visscher | pffff | |
| returned due hard wind, will only try it again via the zmuttridge | |
| Posted Nov 6, 2006 9:21 pm | ||
| oxygen11 | Hörnli Climb Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2006 | |
| What a pyramid from the bottom. A must. Left hut at 4.55. QUite some crowd. Solvay hut at 7am, summit at 8.30. Breathtakingly exposed summit. descent in 3 hrs, takes loooonger than expected. Technically not difficult climb, but strenuous as almost permanent rock climibing (I or II grade, some III). Enormous potential to lose route especially when descending. Likely need crampons on top (we put on at 4200m). We met quite some people (even solo!) without crampons up there. That's the risky folks that cause the bad reputation of the Horn. Several turned around! A dream climb in the end... | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2006 9:00 pm | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | Hörnligrat Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2006 | |
| After two weeks of soloing in Saastal and in Mattertal I was privileged to get to join my friend Kurt from Durango, Colorado. Our primary aim was to ascend the Zmuttgrat. However the guides at the Hörnli Hut were not too encouraging about the conditions on the lower ridge. Despite that we woke up early and headed to the foot of the North face. Summer had been exceptionally warm so the glacier had retreated from the rocks making it difficult to find a way to the upper glacier and getting to circumnavigate to the ridge. After being threatened by rocks falling at the speed of sound we decided to aim for the Hörnli instead. The Hörnli was in very good condition the rocks being dry and the snow consolidated. Wind was fierce though and it made half of the ascending groups turn back and retreat. We reached the windy summit in 5,5 hrs. The weather was exceptionally clear; not a single cloud. Descending the Matterhorn is not trivial; it took us more time to get down than to the summit. I was very happy to make it the second time. I enjoyed myself a lot more than on the first time. What bothers me is that I did not shoot as many photos as I would've liked to; climbing the Hörnli is a huge task and You need to be able to move fast. You easily forget to shoot during the climbing. Photos coming soon to www.samulimansikka.com | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2006 9:51 am | ||
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