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| Charles Garrett | Long climb  Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2006 | |
| Climbed with Nico and Drew/Pika. We brought the climb forward by a day to take advantage of a clear window - all other days that week, the mountain had been hit by afternoon/evening storms. Italian side closed because of stone falls casued by warm weather. Left the Hoernli Hut at 4am with some 40-50 others. Some stupid Swiss guide caused a row at the first fixed rope by queue barging. Very arrogant and unprofessional. Long, long climb during which I was struck by stones from above and saw several major stone falls onto the east face. Summitted at 8am - remarkably few people up there - and what a sight! Descent to Hoernli Hut 4.5 hours and v tiring. Tremendous day. | ||
| Posted Aug 9, 2006 6:07 am | ||
| Lubos | Matterhorn - Hörnligrat Date Climbed: Jun 5, 1986 | |
| A great looking pyramid with a lot of vertical feet below you all the time. I climbed the Hörnligrat solo. As most of the time in the mountains I had nice sunny weather. Reading notes of other climber about how crowded this route is these days, at my day I only met twenty people. A friend of mine from the Czech republic died on this mountain while doing the same solo climb in 1991. Solo climb. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2006 1:47 am | ||
| Zurbriggen | Liongrat Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006 | |
| After a bad storm in the night lots of climbers went back, but my guide wanted to try to make the summit. We startet at 0550 with very cold conditions and snow/ice covered the rocks and fix ropes. After a little over 4 hours we summited as the only climbers trying from the Italian side this day. All the climb was made with crampons, but the route was in very good conditions. After 4 years of trying i finally got on the summit! | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2006 9:44 pm | ||
| taikavuorimies | Route Climbed: Lion ridge Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2006 | |
| I didn't really like the route, it was too irrational and full of loose rocks. We were damn slow and had to bivouac on the mountain; fortunately it wasn't too cold. There was a storm with sleet and thunders, I even got slightly zapped by a lightning on the descent, around Pic Tyndall. The Carrel shelter was really nice. | ||
| Posted Jul 22, 2006 3:05 pm | ||
| hansw | Route Climbed: Hörnligrat Date Climbed: Aug 8, 1997 | |
| Having had unsettled weather for several days we set out from the Hörnli hut at 6 am in starlight. There was a lot of snow and ice on the Matterhorn this year which demanded going with crampons almost all the way. The traffic was not bad, only 25 persons on the mountain, this day. The weather stayed beautiful but I still had a hard time on this famous mountain. Finally, we were rewarded with some fabulous minutes at the summit before going the long way down, (August 8, 1997). Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2006 9:24 pm | ||
| Trabalon | Hörnli route | |
| I climbed this route with my friends Pau, Pepe and Dani. With Pepe we climbed Mont Blanc,Monte Rosa and Matterhorn in only seven days!! An I had only 21 years old!! One of the happiest days in my life for the summit and for complete the trilogy! The route very crowded! This is the dangerous factor of its route | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2006 4:58 pm | ||
| jck | Route Climbed: Lion 6/7 August 2004, Hornligratt March 2006 | |
| First attempt: August 6, I climbed solo to Refugee Carrell.Very foggy day but no snowfall so it was possible to climb without big problems.Spent a night in Carrell.During the night there was a huge snowfall. In the morning it was still snowing and visibility was really bad.I climbed few pitches above Carrell but it was to risky to continue so I decided to get back at about 4000 masl.I didn't have time to spent another night so I had to get down to Breuil. Second attempt: with SP Member Brade we climbed to Solvay and stayed there due to huge snowfall. After 3 days we decided to get down- it took us 11 hours to Hornlihutte!Definitely to risky. Waiting for the third chance. | |
| Posted Jan 11, 2006 7:52 am | ||
| alexclimb | Route Climbed: Lion Ridge Date Climbed: 22 September, 2005 | |
| Tried the route in a beautiful day after some days of heavy snowfalls. There were no problems until Capanna di Carrel, and on the next morning we started very early (4 a.m.) and in the bright moonshine very quickly did the part of the route up to the Grand Corda. But after climbing it we found that the opposite side of the ridge by which we were supposed to climb Tindal was covered by thick and soft snow. This snow stopped our advance and after some hesitation we decided to come back, because it was really dangerous to continue the climb in such condition. It was a pity, as the weather was just unbelievable! Very warm, quite and clear. | |
| Posted Nov 20, 2005 12:50 pm | ||
| edl | Route Climbed: Hornligrat Date Climbed: Aug. 2005 | |
| Beautiful day! | ||
| Posted Sep 29, 2005 6:29 pm | ||
| bruno baschung | Route Climbed: traverse Date Climbed: 23 august 1989 | |
| sorry, I just correct the date of my climb (1989 and not 1990)! Bruno baschung Climbed with G. IMBERT | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2005 6:23 am | ||
| bruno baschung | Route Climbed: lion grat descent on Hörnli Date Climbed: 23 august 1990 | |
| a mountain where you really feel isolated on the top, unlike mount blanc... quite strange. the descent on the Hörnli is quite long, nearly as long as climbing it up, and in my view, the good solution is to make the traverse. Quite logical, beautiful, and enable to think about history and the Whymper-Carrel challenge... Bruno baschung | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2005 6:17 am | ||
| bbirtle | Route Climbed: Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Sept 1, 2005 | |
| Fine weather, very little route-finding problems, decent conditions made for a great climb. Watching another climber on the way up fall 600ft to his death led the climb to a sad mood all around though. A scary looking mountain that should be treated with extreme care, but MUST be climbed... | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2005 9:34 am | ||
| markradford | Route Climbed: Hornli Date Climbed: 28th July 2005 | |
| First attempt at the mountain, and was lucky to get a great break in some variable weather that week. Route was clear and not as busy as I expected. Lots of folk had turned round at the solvay so not a busy descent. Left at 4am, topped out at 8am, and back down by 12. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2005 10:12 am | ||
| John Cherry | Route Climbed: Hornli ridge Date Climbed: September 4, 2004 | |
| Left the Hornli Hut a little after 4:30 and climbed the ridge solo in 3:50, topping out in strong winds and clear skies. Descended in about the same time, rappeling the slabs around the Solvay hut with the rope I carried. I cannot overstate the importance of scouting the lower parts of the route in daylight before a climb. There were some very lost parties doing crazy things in the dark that morning. Having been turned back in mid August by collapsing weather it was very cool to complete the ascent on my second attempt. | ||
| Posted Aug 7, 2005 6:22 am | ||
| Tom Fralich | Route Climbed: Hornli Ridge (solo) Date Climbed: June 28, 2005 | |
| Left the Hornli Hut at 4AM and reached the summit just before 8AM in strong wind and clear skies. The route was in very good condition and there were only about 15 people climbing, so I was able to move quickly (no issues with bottlenecking or rockfall). I scouted the first hour of the route the day before, so there were no routefinding issues in the dark. I actually had more routefinding problems on the descent, which took about 4.5 hours. When I left for the Alps this year, I hoped that I would get a chance to climb the Matterhorn. I didn't expect that I would climb it solo though, but it just turned out that way. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2005 11:14 am | ||
| Cautious | Route Climbed: Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 92, Aug 94, Jul 99 | |
| Weather bad the first time so we were four of only five to reach the summit that day. Long day. Very crowded on other ascents. | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2005 10:04 am | ||
| alexclimb | Route Climbed: Zmuttgrat Date Climbed: 22 July 2004 | |
| Nobody on the route, unbelievable! Clear sky and moderate cold. Perfrct climb. Did the summit and returned to the Carrel hut in 10 hours. Very beautiful route | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2005 11:41 am | ||
| GlennMerrill | Route Climbed: Hornli Ridge Date Climbed: Aug. 2003 | |
| Good climb. Very crowded, but it was to do it at least once. | |
| Posted Feb 27, 2005 7:44 pm | ||
| plume | Route Climbed: Hornli Date Climbed: July 1999 | |
| Brother and I were beaten down by storm just below the Solvay Hut. What a splendid mountain though. Deserves a second go. Or third for that matter. | |
| Posted Feb 10, 2005 2:55 pm | ||
| JanG | Route Climbed: Hornligrat Date Climbed: Aug. 10, 2004 | |
| It was a life-long dream to climb this dramatic pyramid. It took me years of preparation and delays before I reached the summit in the company of my 2 sons (more details in Trip Report). | |
| Posted Nov 19, 2004 8:57 pm | ||
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