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| skileraar | Normal route  | |
| Perfect climb, six hours from hut to summit, six hours back to the valley.. | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2009 8:00 am | ||
| Flachlandtiroler | East ridge normal route Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2008 | |
| Perfect weather, near-optimum conditions: Most of the rock was dry, few meters on the subsequent snow ridge were icy; nearly no wind. Nevertheless we managed to find our own way to Frühstücksplatz ;-) and even in descent had to look around to get down this pile of rubbish. After a break at the cozy, but cramped hut we added the descent to the valley. A long trip, but worth the effort. | ||
| Posted Sep 4, 2008 6:39 am | ||
| Cyrill | Weisshorn 4506m Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2008 | |
| Winter in July! Winter conditions. Lots of fresh snow on the ridge. There were difficult conditions. But we have reached the summit. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2008 10:31 am | ||
| Bas Visscher | East-ridge | |
| My most impressive 4000m peak, definately not easy. We needed six hours, deep snow on the last part. | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2006 8:32 pm | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | East ridge solo Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2006 | |
| My original plan was to climb the central couloir on the South face. However, it started to rain as soon as I got to the hut and I needed to wait for a better weather for quite a while. After the second rainy night spent alone in the hut I thought that the conditions on the face would not be safe enough. The weather improved during my third night in the hut so I was able to start the final blast towards the summit at 2 a.m. I had to be back in Zermatt the same night so I couldn't have spent any more nights in the hut waiting for the better weather. The snow couloir leading to the ridge was in very good condition so I was on the ridge to see the sunrise. The ridge was a bit icy on the shadow side due to several days of rain but the sunny side dryed as soon as the sun hit the rock. The ridge is very exposed but since the route finding is easy You can move over it relatively fast. The snowy part of the route was in awful condition due to rain and wind so I lost a lot of time having to front-point all the way to the summit except for the section where there are a few big crevasses. Because of the rain and warm nights the snow covers were very thin so I carefully crawled across the spot which I thought would be the safest around. From there I front-pointed the rest of the route to the summit and reversed what I had done on the way up. It was slow climbing down front-pointing the hard icy snow slopes. The conditions were awful but I enjoyed the elegant route and the beautiful mountain. I was down in Randa at 7.30 p.m. so that made a loooong day. I do not recommend anyone to solo the route. It is very very easy to fall off the ridge. Photos: www.samulimansikka.com | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2006 5:24 pm | ||
| bbirtle | Route Climbed: Schaligrot Date Climbed: Sept 8, 2005 | |
| Climb itself is excellent on great and fun rock. Schalijohn Bivuack is at an amazing location... I was the first non-European in their whole 20 year hut book to sign. Approach to the hut is problematic and probably not worth the effort for the climb itself, unless it is intended to chain the mountain with other peaks like Ober Gablehorn and Zinal Rothorn. On the way down, we met with a disaster that nearly killed us. We neglected to check carefully how quickly time was passing and arrived at the summit at 7:15 PM. In a blowing fog snow blazzard. The conditions and late hour forced a nightmare unplanned, unprepared bivuack on the ridge which nearly killed both me and my parter with hypothermia. We had to be helicopter rescued. Not recommended. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2005 11:48 am | ||
| Cautious | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August 2001 | |
| Second attempt after a failed attempt due to too much soft snow in July 1999. A lovely climb, very uncrowded compared to its near neighbour, the Matterhorn. Highly recommended | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2005 10:00 am | ||
| risch | Route Climbed: North- ridge Date Climbed: July 2001 | |
| Long and hard but shurly one of the best routes in the Alps. | ||
| Posted Jan 12, 2004 3:56 am | ||
| Scott Pierce | Route Climbed: East RIdge Date Climbed: September 2000 | |
| Conditions going up were great, but the snow had turned to slop by 11am, so when we turned to descend, we ended up clumping down 45 degree ice with 6 inches of goopy wet snow on top--this was the real crux of the climb. Took us about 14 hours, hut-to-hut--seven up and seven back. | |
| Posted Nov 3, 2003 3:56 pm | ||
| Rahel Maria Liu | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August 19th, 2003 | |
| I climbed Weisshorn free soloing. This was the third part of what my new friends, whom I got to know in my "basecamp" on the great camping ground in Randa-Attermenzen during my 4 weeks, which I stayed there, called my "Trilogy". Originally, it was not planned at all. It just happened: the solo climbs of Matterhorn, Zinalrothorn and Weisshorn. Besides me, only 2 other persons climbed Weisshorn on this day at all (also by the East-Ridge). Nobody climbed Weisshorn on this day on any other route. On this wonderfull trip, I really felt to climb free soloing. Although there had been some snowfall during the days before, the rockclimbing conditions were perfect! Great compact rock without any snow or ice. Due to the new snowfall, the ice-part of the ridge (the last 500 hm of the ridge) became a little better. But unfortunately, I did not have a second ice axe, which would have been very usefull for the 6m of almost vertical ice-climbing on the normal route through the ridge-plateau and especially during the ascent, for which I used another route due to the big crevasses on the normal route. For the descent, I climbed just beneath the southern rocks on the ridge. This version of the route was steeper and more icy, but with less danger due to creavasses. I was a wonderfull trip in almost complete loneliness of a very beautiful mountain! | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2003 5:42 pm | ||
| Plizi | Route Climbed: east ridge Date Climbed: juli 2002 | |
| Very nice balance climbing on the ridge and perfect mountain | |
| Posted Nov 27, 2002 6:27 am | ||
| Uli | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: Aug. 20, 2000 | |
| Great climb. A spectacular shaped mountain. The eighthst highest peak of the Alps. A breath-taking sharp ridge. Start very early from Weisshorn Hut (2.932m), at about 2.30 h in the morning. As it is very difficult to find the right way up to the so called "Frühstücksplatz" (= breakfast-place), check this way the afternoon before. Above the Frühstücksplatz (3.919m) real ridge climbing starts, so wait there till daylight and enjoy the view on Matterhorn. Make sure to reach the summit before noon. It is a long and difficult way down and the weather is changing very quickly up there. | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2001 5:59 am | ||
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