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Movie After yesterday's 10 hour day at Trugberg NE Face, I was looking for a relaxing short route and to go home. Monch SE Ridge (normal route) is an objectively safe climb, a very popular one, route finding is easy. I enjoyed it, we were on the summit in about 2 h 15 mins, spent a very relaxing time on the summit on a...

Video preview Background: Ron and I had originally planned to do NE Face of Monch, rated D,but when we reached the hut and saw this NE face of Trugberg so temptingly close (15mins approach hike compared to 2 hours for Monch NE Face), we changed our mind. The fact that neither of us had read any reports/guides about this route...

This is one of those adventures that you unknowingly or unwillingly get into, but feel so happy and proud when you come out of it. Ron is an Israeli climber with about 8 years of climbing experience in the US, and had done North faces up to TD- in the Alps. I am relatively raw, with just over a year of climbing experience, and...

Biancograt is considered to be the most beautiful route in the AD grade in the whole Alps! Here's a video I found on internet, describes the experience much better than I can ever do in words. I undertook it within a 3-day climbing trip: Day 1: Boval hut - Piz Morteratsch- Tschierva Hut with Roger Day 2: Tscheirva hut- Piz...

Day 1 of a 3-day trip that included Biancograt on Day 2 and Piz Palu Traverse on Day 3. Did the Morteratsch with Roger, my Swiss rock-climbing partner. This was his very first hochtour after doing a glacier course a few days ago. I knew that his climbing, aerobic, and mental fitness are all pretty good, at least better than...

Did this the day after Cosmiques Arete. A reasonably good climb, we started out at 6:15 am, summitted around and 8:45, and rapidly descended in just over an hour. The only real difficulty was the last section which has a bit of grade 2-3 rock climbing. Actually it is a simple chimney, but when the ground is icy (it was hard...