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| Tom Fralich | Route Climbed: SW Ridge (Rothorngrat) Date Climbed: July 3, 2005  | |
| Climbed with Thuri and Kristine, a Swiss couple I met at the Rothorn hut the day before. I was considering a solo of the normal route, but after dinner, we decided to team up for the Rothorngrat. We left the hut late (5AM), since the weather had been quite bad the day before and we were unsure if we would find the ridge dry and in good condition. After reaching the Schneegrat, the ridge appeared to be fairly dry, so we decided to have a go at it. It took quite a long time, since the ridge is VERY long and we were climbing as a group of three. When we reached the junction with the normal route, we decided to descend, since it was already late and the descent couloir was very snowy. The descent was the hardest part of the climb, with lots of deep, loose snow. We made it back to the Rothorn hut at 7PM and then I continued all the way back to Zermatt (5000 ft descent in 2.5 hrs), making for an 18 hour day. | |
| Posted Jul 4, 2005 1:12 am | ||
| Cautious | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: July 1999 | |
| Weather very warm. Soft snow. Cleared before we got to summit. Great views. | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2005 9:58 am | ||
| BobK | Route Climbed: SE-Ridge Date Climbed: August 3, 1980 | |
| Heavy snow this summer kept the mountain closed until the day before we climbed it. The normally clear rock ridges wore huge cornices making this one of the most nerve racking mornings of my life. I climbed with a Brit I met the night before in the hut, he insisted on climbing the ridge unroped, "if one of us falls, he'll just pull the other off". Many people died on the route in the following weeks. Clear day made for great photos, but we couldn't stay at the top for too long as the mountain was melting. A party of austrians fell from the ridge and we had to lower a rope to get them back up. Super climb! | |
| Posted Nov 9, 2004 7:00 am | ||
| mthoelke | Route Climbed: traverse SE to N ridge Date Climbed: 22 July 2004 | |
| Mixed conditions, very warm, pretty soft on appraoch, some vergalss on N ridge, probably first up in season, very exposed descent, very impressive summit! | ||
| Posted Aug 13, 2004 9:00 am | ||
| Jim Clarke | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: August 21 2003 | |
| Definitely one of my favorite climbs/peaks of all time! A fast moving and early start avoided the crowds and staying climbers left of the coulior put us on fun rock at sunrise as well as helped us avoid rockfall on the descent. We did find the upper rock frosted over which made things a bit harry...but we stood alone on the summit for 20min. taking in the incredible views. | |
| Posted Oct 1, 2003 10:07 am | ||
| jsurinx | Route Climbed: SE-Ridge Date Climbed: 22 Aug 2003 | |
| We started ( Gilbert, Luc and myself ) later than the other rope-parties . By the ascent on the ridge we countered all the others and so we where all alone on the summit. It was a great sunny day and so we stayed for over an hour on the summit with magnificient views of the whole area! | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2003 10:27 am | ||
| Rahel Maria Liu | Route Climbed: SE-Ridge Date Climbed: August 13th, 2003 | |
| I climbed Zinalrothorn free soloing. This was the second 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. There was some rockfall in the couloir. Some days before, a german climber got killed in this couloir due to rockfall. Besides me, about 50 other people climbed Zinalrothorn on this day. Therefore I did not really feel, as if I climbed it free soloing. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2003 5:23 pm | ||
| kletterwebbi | Route Climbed: Kanzelgrat (direct SE-ridge) Date Climbed: August 2001 | |
| We tried the Kanzelgrat, but my partner get's sick, so we have to abort our attempt. It was one of some more relapses of that summer ... | |
| Posted Apr 11, 2003 9:27 am | ||
| Frank | Route Climbed: SE-ridge Date Climbed: August 1999 | |
| Crowdy, but a great view at the summit. Start early to be the first to avoid waiting on the more difficult parts of the route. | |
| Posted Feb 23, 2003 7:50 am | ||
| Plizi | Route Climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: juli 2001 | |
| Very nice route with nice rock without problems for little climber | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2002 3:29 am | ||
| ben jammin | Route Climbed: SE-ridge (normal route): Date Climbed: July 2001 | |
| Good fun, but snow conditions in the colouir get pretty bad if you leave your descent for too late in the day. | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2001 12:05 pm | ||
| schadik | Route Climbed: Rothorngrat Date Climbed: Fall 99 | |
| Fantastic | |
| Posted Nov 19, 2001 10:44 am | ||
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