| Hörnligrat - final slopes. | [ Sizes: Orig | Small | Thumb ] |
Fred on the final slopes below the summit of the Matterhorn - Hörnligrat Route.
Photo taken 19 August 1985 by Monica Spicker.
Comments
[ Post a Comment ]| Nelson | Truly Exciting! | | 
Hasn't voted | I second Dean's comment, an exciting moment and an exciting picture! If I had been hooked up to a heart monitor I'm sure it would have blipped when I saw this! | | Posted Feb 6, 2004 6:20 pm |
| mountaindog | Great Shot! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Wow, this really gives one the feeling of the conditions (and crowds). Look forward to seeing your trip report. | | Posted Feb 6, 2004 7:12 pm |
| vandamage | Great view ! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Fred n you have climbed quite a few peaks !
I would like to climb the Matterhorn, but I have to do more training before I would be able too. I enjoyed your trip report. I have a lot of respect for u and your hubbie. Climb on !!!! | | Posted Mar 16, 2006 4:49 am |
| Sebastian Hamm | Fantastic! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Great moment, great feeling to watch it. Sebastian | | Posted Nov 8, 2006 5:23 pm |
 | | Moni | Re: :) | | 
Hasn't voted | I wish that for you too! | | Posted Jun 29, 2007 8:58 pm |
| hiltrud.liu | Nice picture! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Merry Christmas to you!
Hiltrud | | Posted Dec 14, 2007 4:10 pm |
| | Moni | Re: Nice picture! | |
Hasn't voted | Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!
Vielen Dank!
Moni | | Posted Dec 14, 2007 8:44 pm |
| camerona91 | Exciting picture! | | 
Voted 10/10 | I would love to do this route. A really nice perspective in this picture. Incidentally, it was taken 4 days after I was born!!! | | Posted Apr 8, 2008 10:41 pm |
| | Moni | Re: Exciting picture! | |
Hasn't voted | Glad you like the picture and i hope you get to do the route. Just don't rub in how old we are! :-)) | | Posted Apr 9, 2008 9:25 am |
| Nyle Walton | Great Day | | 
Hasn't voted | I wish I would have had such visibility when I stood on this spot 53 years ago. | | Posted Jun 25, 2008 11:23 am |
| | Moni | Re: Great Day | |
Hasn't voted | The weather was very iffy that day and we considered turning around at one point further down. Then it got decent just long enough for this stretch to the summit. The clouds closed in behind us all the way down. | | Posted Jun 25, 2008 5:33 pm |
| Nyle Walton | Helmets | |
Hasn't voted | Back in 1955 helmets to protect us from rock falls were unheard of. Mountaineering has come a long way in fifty three years. I wonder what a guide charges nowadays to pull a client up the Matterhorn. I paid my guide Emil Julen forty dollars back then. Forty dollars then is equivalent to six or seven hundred dollars now. | | Posted Jun 27, 2008 10:31 am |
| | Moni | Re: Helmets | |
Hasn't voted | The basic cost is about 1200 dollars and most guides require you to do one other climb with them before they will take you up the Matterhorn. Given the number of idiots on the route who have no clue how to climb with minimal rock fall, a helmet is essential. When we were there they had to helicopter a guy off who had taken a rock fall on the noggin. | | Posted Jun 27, 2008 4:34 pm |
| | Nyle Walton | Re: Helmets | |
Hasn't voted | That's inflation for you. I had to convince Emil that I was ready for the Matterhorn by telling him of my earlier ascents of the Grand Teton and Mount Rainier. The day after I arrived in Zermatt, I hiked up to the Schwarzsee and met Emil who then led me up to the Belvedere hut. We climbed the Matterhorn the very next morning. | | Posted Jun 28, 2008 10:59 am |
| spotly | Metal Thingy | | 
Hasn't voted | What is the thingy in front of the climber behind Fred? Looks metalic with a hoop at the top. | | Posted Sep 20, 2009 5:54 pm |
| | Moni | Re: Metal Thingy | |
Hasn't voted | Big piece if metal rod heavier than rebar from which to belay of rappel as needed. The rock is horrible and there's no other way to protect this piece which is actually in the north face. As you can see, a lot of people climb the Matterhorn daily.
These belay rods are fairly common on the more popular routes in the Alps. | | Posted Sep 20, 2009 7:58 pm |
| mills | Excellent | | 
Voted 10/10 | Seems to be a lot of fresh snow, tricky in the decent I would think !
Excellent photo btw. | | Posted Oct 2, 2009 10:30 am |
| | Moni | Re: Excellent | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks - yes you need to be very careful through this section - it probably always has some snow on it. | | Posted Oct 2, 2009 7:54 pm |
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