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| Artoirius | Route Climbed: Normal from Klein Matterhorn  Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006 | |
| We started at about 9 o'clock at Klein Matterhorn. About 12 o'clock we reached the summit of Pollux. Beware, during the ascent we saw someone falling with some serious head injuries. Nice, but easy rockclimbing | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2006 5:00 pm | ||
| Charles Garrett | Pollux as preparation for the Matterhorn Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2006 | |
| Climbed with Nico and Drew as altitude preparation for the Matterhorn. Glorious day as we set off on the long traverse from the Klein Matterhorn. Decent scramble on the normal route; left our packs at the bottom of the snow ridge leading to the summit. Return traverse (on which we had to lose and then regain 3-400 metres) was long and tiring. The storm clouds, which had been building all the while over Cervinia, produced tremendous thunder and lightning as we returned. They finally delivered a spectacular hail storm just as we reached the last lift for the descent to Zermatt. | ||
| Posted Aug 9, 2006 5:38 am | ||
| bergnasenbaer | Normal from biv. Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2006 | |
| It's a nice little climb. Descent to Guide d'Ayas hut in thunderstorm. It wasn't really funny. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2006 9:30 pm | ||
| David_Holland | nice climb Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2006 | |
| Climb it from bivak rossi volante. | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2006 2:44 pm | ||
| hansw | South east ridge Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2000 | |
| After a day of snowing we had to make a new trail from Keine Matterhorn to Zwillingsjoch. Going up the rocky south east ridge of Pollux was somewhat complicated due to lot of ice and traffic. We had some nice summit minutes before going down the same way. (July 25, 2000). | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2006 10:23 pm | ||
| mulidivarese | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 4 september 2005 | |
| Wonderful weather, the first good weekend of the season. We (Valerio, Daniele, Luigi, Alessandro, Sabrina)reached the top by the normal way form Rifugio Guide Ayas (very nice and confortable). Very nice climbing, with a good mix of rock and glacer. Wonderful view from the top with quite unusual prospective to the Lyskamm and Monte Rosa. Really enjoiable | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 3:50 am | ||
| roadmountain | Route Climbed: traverse from Zwillingsjoch down the normal route Date Climbed: 13 august | |
| A nice tour with a beautiful view!! On the normal route where the ropes are it's very busy... | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2005 10:21 am | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | Route Climbed: West face Date Climbed: June 20th 2005 | |
| After starting from the Klein Matterhorn and topping the Breithorn we continued our Monte Rosa Traverse to the direction of the Zwillinge. We left our backpacks to the foot of the face and simul-soloed the West face which was in really good condition. There was some ice in some parts but it was no more than a few meters at a time. We descended by the normal route. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 5:13 am | ||
| bbirtle | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: Apr 3, 2005 | |
| A few very steep parts of rock with fixed chains near the summit, otherwise easy scrambling. Lots of wind, especially on the summit ridge. Partner suffering from altitute nearly passes out while roped to me, nice. Done to and from the Rossi e Volanti Bivuack. | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2005 12:35 pm | ||
| siroco | Route Climbed: En traversée Date Climbed: 20 juin 05 | |
| Départ du refuge Ayas, retour sur Klein Matterhorn | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2005 8:07 am | ||
| Franz77 | Route Climbed: Face W - skimountaineering Date Climbed: 01 May 2005 | |
| Directely from the summit by ski. Spectacular descente very steep. In 2 days from Saint Jacques d'Ayas (1700m) sleeping to Refuge Guide d'Ayas. | |
| Posted May 2, 2005 5:23 am | ||
| JanG | Route Climbed: From Schwarztor pass ( ski tour) Date Climbed: April 4, 2000 | |
| Pollux was my first combined ski/rock climbing tour. We took the long ski traverse from Klein Matterhorn and left our skis at Schwarztor before starting the rock climb. We had to break trail all the way up the mountain because it had snowed during the previous night. My local guide from Zermatt, Tomi, had to practically pull me up on the tricky rock pitch with his belay rope because I did not have enough strength left in my arms to pull on the fixed chain. It was a very frustrating experience for both of us and I must commend Tomi for not giving up! Our ski-descent from the Schwarztor pass [alt. 3731m] was absolutely awesome. We had more than 2100 vertical meters of fresh untracked powder snow to ourselves because there was no one else on the ski run. WOW !!! | |
| Posted Nov 16, 2004 9:06 pm | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: SE ridge Date Climbed: June 29 2004 | |
| The first peak of our traverse of the Zermatt - area skyline peaks, including Pollux, Castor, Lyskamm, Parrotspitze, Signalkuppe, Zumsteinspitze, and Dufourspitze. Fun climbing and a great view from the summit! | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2004 4:57 pm | ||
| flearreta | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: August 27, 2004 | |
| Beautiful day. Took us 3.5 hours form Klein Matterhorn to summit. Back down to the base, traverse to the base of Castor and summited this in another 2.5 hours. Traversed the Castor ridge to the Felikjoch and down to Quintino Sella Hut in another 1.5 hour. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2004 12:59 pm | ||
| Mathias Zehring | Route Climbed: normal Date Climbed: August 8th 2000 | |
| fine day, good conditions. Climbing the steep part with the chain was not that easy. One of us lost a crampon there that we had to find back in a steep couloir. | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2004 12:59 am | ||
| mekwise | Route Climbed: SE Ridge, Normal Date Climbed: August 22, 2004 | |
| We reached the summit in perfect weather and had an all around fabulous day. | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2004 10:02 pm | ||
| Pierre smetsers | Route Climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: 10 aug 2004 | |
| Again and now with two Friends, Karel & Reinier. No good view and more people on the top | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2004 4:57 pm | ||
| joel2lounge | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: October 2001 | |
| One day link-up of the Breithorn, Castor, and Pollux | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2004 12:47 pm | ||
| shachar00 | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: July, 2004 | |
| Got out of d'Ayas hut without really knowing what we wanted to do, we simply followed the Italian groups up the glacier. When the crowds turned for Castor we naturally went for the SE ridge of the Pollux (from the saddle connecting the two). How to make an easy ascent difficult- Even if looks like a rocky ridge, smells like a rocky ridge and behaves like a rocky ridge all the way up, if the guidebook says that it's "mix" climb - do not leave your crampons down at Col. :) | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2004 10:49 am | ||
| andrea.it | Route Climbed: normal from Mezzalama hut Date Climbed: july 2002 | |
| heavy fog,i'm not sure had reached the summit!!! | |
| Posted May 11, 2004 11:12 am | ||
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