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| schulzj | Fabulous rock  Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2008 | |
| We started from the Rothornhut. The only downside was the number of rope teams on the mountain which made it a rather long day out. At the end we were caught by the daily afternoon thunderstorms shortly before we were back at the hut. | |
| Posted Oct 10, 2009 10:49 am | ||
| SarahThompson | Electric! Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2009 | |
| From Rothorn Hut. Wake up time was moved up by an hour (to 3am) as bad weather was predicted in the afternoon. Climb was eerily warm until we reached the knife edge snow ridge. It began to snow lightly as we climbed the upper rock portions. The first boom of thunder was heard at 6:55am, two minutes after we'd started back down from the summit! Plenty of buzzing on the sharp ridge. Other nearby climbers saw lightning strike a big flake 50 meters from them. Quick descent on increasingly snowier rock. Back to Rothorn Hut five hours after we'd left! Warmed up with some grog. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2009 11:07 am | ||
| hernberg | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2009 | |
| Snowed all night so we had to turn back 50 meters from the summit, very icy but i found the rock climbing enjoyable | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2009 4:18 am | ||
| Pierre smetsers | Very nice Climb Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2008 | |
| The day before we went back from 3800m, bad weather wind and snow. But one day later we enjoyed this great climb. Never to difficult. There were many others partys whichs slows you down especialy at the coulior and the Binerplatte. And what a view. | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2008 4:40 pm | ||
| ThomasOldeHeuvelt | Snowy north ridge Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2008 | |
| What a fantastic ridge! We found it still in snowy conditions after the bad weather from a week before. We climbed everything with crampons, which slows down a lot, but is really doable, even on the traverse of the Sphinx. We belayed only 4 rope lengths - the Rasoir, the Sphinx traverse, the Bourrique and the Bosse. The Arete Blanche is magnificent! | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2008 2:16 am | ||
| skileraar | South East ridge Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2006 | |
| Foggy and cold.. Nice route! | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2008 7:35 am | ||
| Zeddicus | Traverse: SE & N ridge Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2008 | |
| Nice traverse to the mountet hut. I found the N ridge more interesting than the SE, climbing wise. | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2008 11:21 am | ||
| Griffiths | Normal Route Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2008 | |
| Beautiful climb. Bottleneck from the couloir that really slowed down the ascent and subsequent descent and had to walk to the rothorn hut in a thunderstorm! | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2008 5:37 am | ||
| Pechorin | Route Climbed: normal route SE-ridge Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007 | |
| A very nice climb, but too much traffic ahead of us slowed down the rate of ascent. Perhaps it was a mistake to choose a Sunday for this summit? Further, I sprained my ankle due to carelessness on the descent (which did not really help us catch up time-wise). We were back at the hut just in time for dinner. I climbed with my twin brother. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2008 4:37 am | ||
| Cyrill | Zinalrothorn Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2007 | |
| Fantastic Tour to Zinalrothorn 4221m. my picture are here: Link to Zinalrothorn | |
| Posted Nov 8, 2007 4:38 am | ||
| mamo | SE ridge from Rothornhutte Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2007 | |
| Great tour and panorama from the top ; good weather in the early morning , thunderstorm on way back to the hutte at late morning. ciao mamo | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2007 4:15 pm | ||
| Bas Visscher | se ridge | |
| climbed it with hard wind and fog. no view at the summit :-( | |
| Posted Nov 6, 2006 9:19 pm | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | North ridge Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2006 | |
| After our windy ascent of the Hörnligrat of the Matterhorn I and Kurt headed to Zinal and to Mountet Hut North from Zinal Rothorn. The ridge is spectacular and consists of good quality rock. There were bolts in most exposed places so it is worthwhile taking a few draws with you. Photos coming soon to www.samulimansikka.com | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2006 10:17 am | ||
| David_Holland | great! Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2006 | |
| Climb it from teh Rothornhut and back to there, great climb! | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2006 2:46 pm | ||
| Flachlandtiroler | Normal route Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2005 | |
| Normal route (lower SE-, then SW-ridge) in near-optimum condition. We left Rothorn hut half an hour before the crowds but managed to loose track above the "Wasserloch" (...) so we enjoyed the traffic jam below Biner slab like the rest of the world. The slab itself was dry but the pitch above wasn't. We climbed in two pairs, so rapelling with four persons took some time but we managed to have a snack at the Trift hotel and arrive in town during dawn. Very nice route with amazing views (for instance down to Mountet). As this was planned as a 2-day-action from home and weather remained continously fine one of the two pairs decided to run another mountain trip on the way home. Whereas the Zinalrothorn starting from scratch made no problems regarding altitude, day #3 at the simple 3000m-peak Fleckistock became quite hard... | ||
| Posted Mar 30, 2006 12:06 pm | ||
| hansw | Route Climbed: From Rothorn Hut Date Climbed: Aug 9, 1999 | |
| "We reached - I had almost said the top; but the Rothorn has no top. It has a place where a top manifestly ought to have been, but the work had been left unfinished. It ended in a flat circular area a few feet broad, as though it had been a perfect cone, with the apex cleanly struck off", wrote Leslie Stephen in his book "Playground of Europe" when Zinal Rothorn was climbed the first time in 1864. And I can not but agree after reaching this small, high, windy and beautiful place over the South-East ridge starting from the Rothorn hut. An exiting route containing both walking narrow snow ridges and climbing good rock. (August 9, 1999). | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2006 9:29 pm | ||
| tiefenthaler | Route Climbed: SE-ridge Date Climbed: 01 August 1990 | |
| Thomas had some business to do in Zermatt, to Wolfi and I joined him to climb the Zinalrothorn. Without any acclimatisation we were pretty tired at the end of the summit day | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2005 1:38 am | ||
| LS | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 06 Aug 2003 | |
| See my trip report and pictures here: http://distantpeak.com/web/mountains/europe/zinalrothorn | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2005 2:24 am | ||
| bbirtle | Route Climbed: Normal Route (from Rothorn Hut) Date Climbed: July 12, 2005 | |
| Lots and lots of snow -- in the coulier, on the ridge, everywhere. But not difficult. Exposed traverse near the summit (small ledge with 250m+ sheer vertical drop) the most fun I've had all month. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 6:27 pm | ||
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