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| JanVanGenk | SW Ridge  Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2009 | |
| Approached via the Fluealp and bivouaced nearby the Pfulwe pass. The climb was a 17-hour epic which started by taking a wrong and pretty dangerous line up and abseiling down using precarious anchors, then climbing up again through the correct line, and finally descending the whole way back to the Pfulwe pass by constantly missing the right exits one has to take on the way. With all these detours I reached the bivouac site at about 10 p.m., and as if that was not enough, I got a shower of wet hail just at the moment when I was taking off my boots and was ready to crawl into my bivvy bag. And there's no way to close the bag quickly... Great day though! | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2009 7:07 am | ||
| ThomasOldeHeuvelt | From Brittaniahutte in the snow | |
| I was 19 when I climbed Rimpfischhorn. It was snowy and foggy and I suffered from altitude sickness on the way back. My friend forgot his piolet when he abseiled down the wall below the presummit. I offered to climb back up to get it. It was hell: steep, icy cliffs, a snowstorm, and sickness. | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2008 2:54 am | ||
| Pechorin | Route Climbed: normal route from the Flualp Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2007 | |
| I had suffered a sprained ankle a few days earlier on the Zinalrothorn, but my foot held up ok. We had beautiful weather and lots of fresh snow (no tracks). The correct route is easy to see from the saddle-point, but we lost track later on and ascended too far straight up... got back on the route through a dicey traverse on steep ground without good holds. I climbed with my twin brother. We didn't meet or see anyone else on the mountain. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2008 4:23 am | ||
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| Jeroen Vels | Re: Date climbed: august 2005 | |
| Hey Menneke, welke route hebben jullie geklommen? | |
| Posted Dec 11, 2007 3:42 pm | ||
| Cyrill | Rimpfischhorn 4199m Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2004 | |
| Great tour to Rimpfischhorn 4199m. my picture are here: Link to Rimpfischhorn 4199m | |
| Posted Nov 8, 2007 12:04 pm | ||
| Jeroen Vels | Route Climbed: North Face from Täschhütte Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2007 | |
| Lots of fresh snow. Good weather on the way up. On the summit thunder started and snow came down for the next 12 hours. No other people on the mountain. Partner: John Scoles | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2007 8:04 am | ||
| David_Holland | Nice tour Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2007 | |
| Climb it by the normal route from out a bivouac under Spitziflu, on the track from Flualp. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2007 3:00 pm | ||
| brade | SW ridge Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2007 | |
| Very long ascent but final route is 100% worth it. Climbing it is a real fun! Climbed with Jck (Jacek) and Lukasz. Any danger? 2 guides with 7 problematic clients on one rope. | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2007 2:04 am | ||
| jck | SW ridge Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2007 | |
| Very long route. After spending three days in tents over the Tahschhutte waiting for good weather I climbed this route with Radek ( brade ) and Lukasz. Interesting and enjoyable climb in quite good snow conditions. Before descending I climbed also the the West Summit (P 4009). | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2007 6:40 pm | ||
| Nikman | From Täschhütte Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2007 | |
| 1750 meters of climbing from Täsch-Hütte including the re-elevation between the two glaciers together with Sebastian. Very long ski-mountaineering tour, but definitely worth it. Great views and panorama. Täsch-Hütte is nicer than Britannia-Hütte even you have to carry your ski some distance if you go that late in the year. Good conditions. | |
| Posted May 6, 2007 6:35 pm | ||
| Sebastian Hamm | Very long ski trip from Taeschhutte Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2007 | |
| Nice climb with Niklas. Perfect snow conditions. | |
| Posted May 1, 2007 3:44 am | ||
| roadmountain | Route climbed: North-westface Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2006 | |
| Great climb, my first of the saison. Good condition, upper part a little bit icy. We were alone on the summit, great view! One of my favourits mountains | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2006 8:47 am | ||
| joe_akeem | Route Climbed: Normal from Britannia Hut Date Climbed: Apr 4, 1999 | |
| On skis from Britannia hut via Allalinpass and Rimpfischsattel where we had to leave the skis. I was glad there was some fog creeping up the eat face. See here why ;) Skied down to Taesch. | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2006 10:47 am | ||
| Jurgen Mesman | Date climbed: august 2005 | |
| Climbed with Paul. Very cold.. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2006 2:40 pm | ||
| siroco | Route Climbed: Normal Route from Flualp (Berghaus Flue) Date Climbed: 28 Aug 2005 | |
| very nice | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2005 3:38 pm | ||
| bbirtle | Route Climbed: Normal Route from Flualp Date Climbed: July 19-20, 2005 | |
| Finally got to the top of this thing after three failed attempts due to bad weather and a partner's broken crampon. Hard to believe so many people blindly following the main coulier way too far, leading to ground that is (from what I heard from some of them) quite harder than PD... a good lesson to rely on your own judgement instead of following a trail blindly as so many people shockingly do here in the Alps. Interesting climbing, even on the correct route. Had to solo the hard bits due to partners bailing out. Excellent weather, but the approach from Flu is just as much a killer as from Brittania... I was completely exhausted after this one, but well worth it. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2005 7:20 pm | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | Route Climbed: North ridge Date Climbed: June 28th 2005 | |
| What a beautiful route!! Tuomas and I started from the Britannia Hut at around half past four in the morning and stood on the top at 10 o'clock. The glacier and the snow slope to the Grand Gendarme were in bad condition. The night had been warm so there was only a 2 cm icy coating on the wet snow. That does not hold ones weight so we cut deep steps all the way to the beginning of the rocky section. We lost some time trying to get around the 40-50 meter tall gendarme before noticing that on the very top there were bolts for rappeling. The first rappel is a short one and of the second bolt at 1/3 from the top you can easily reach the foot of the gendarme with a 50 meter rope (doubled for rappeling). From that point the route was easy to follow and the quality of the rock is far better than on most rock ridges of the area. Every now and then the ridge gets very narrow so don't forget to belay your partner occasionally by wrapping the rope around the rock spikes which there are plenty. We did have a set of nuts with us but did not eventually use any. In whole the ridge is very varied and allows You to use multiple techniques. From the summit we took the normal route down to the foot of the summit pyramid and returned to the Britannia Hut through very hazardous glacier. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 2:49 pm | ||
| LS | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 16 Aug 2000 | |
| A good preparation for my Mont Blanc climb | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2005 2:35 am | ||
| bbirtle | Route Climbed: Normal Route from Britannia Hutte Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2005 | |
| Looooooong and cold apprach from the hut. Beautiful sunrise, though. Mistakenly followed the main coulier too far, following a massive piste of other tracks. Ends in a vertical wall and appearently none of those 100 tracks actually made the summit! Teaches us to follow blindly... Anyway, after some thought, as well as watching two other groups follow the piste of tracks to us and turn around, (!) we did a scetchy traverse right to the correct coulier, where there was a much smaller trail and an obviously line the remaining 50m to the summit. Disaster strikes: my partner's crampon breaks in half! Bail, bail! I have to carefully belay him down every bit back to the skis. Next time... | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2005 12:44 pm | ||
| Gaffr | Route Climbed: The SW Ridge from the Rimpfischsattel. Date Climbed: The middle of August 2004 | |
| A long and interesting day out from the Brittannia hut with the Speyside folks. Cold and windy with some ice on the rocks. The summit block is a very fine location with amazing views. We joined ropes with an Italian pair to facilitate a quicker abseil descent into the little snow couloir. | ||
| Posted Sep 3, 2004 8:38 am | ||
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