I fell in love with the Alps when I moved to Zurich in December 2008 for 3 years. Hikr was the first stop source of information and inspiration when I, who had never seen snow before, wanted to do the Mythens trilogy and then move on to bigger alpine goals through a logical progression. My first alpine climbing partner also came...

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 of when you come out of it unscathed! 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 Rockies. I am relatively raw, with just over a year of climbing...

Biancograt is considered to be the most beautiful route in the AD grade in the whole Alps! I undertook it within a 3-day climbing trip, of which the first day is described here: Day 1: Boval hut - Piz Morteratsch- Tschierva Hut with Roger Day 2: Tscheirva hut- Piz Bernina/Biancograt - Marco e Rosa hut (This trip report; the...

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...

This is a short, lovely technical climb at Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix. An extremely popular route due to easy access and easy descent after the climb. Approach: Can be done as a day trip from Chamonix. We however reached Chamonix the previous evening, took the cable car to Aiguille du Midi and descended to Cosmiques Hut...

This follows the previous day's trip to Pollux Approach This morning weather was again pretty lousy, we set out around 7:00 am thinking we will turn back if it doesn’t improve. We were lucky, it was perfect timing, and the sun shone as we started the climb. It was easy following the tracks now; there were a couple of parties...

It is always a challenge to balance family interests and climbing; this is how we figured out an itinerary that would keep everyone happy. Day 1 (Friday): Went to Klein Matterhorn Glacier Paradise Lodge with wife and son. I was sure this itself would be a big adventure for them and everyone would get headache. However, since...

Hochtourenweekend im Saastal - leider unweit des Gipfels abgebrochen... Drei Tage - aussergewöhnlich viel Zeit habe ich für die erste Hochtour in diesem Jahr zur Verfügung gehabt und auch ausgenutzt. Es sollte alles passen - Akklimatisierung, Wetter und Verhätnisse am Berg, leider hat es dann doch nicht ganz gereicht......

Maybe the best climb I have done so far: absolutely delightful granite, generous holds, awesome views and ... and... OK, I just ran out of adjectives :-) We started out from the Sidelen-Hutte after breakfast. It was still cold and slight rain/snow, so we chose to climb with boots and gloves on. The hike to the start of the...

My Swiss friend Dieter and I climbed this. Via del Veterano is famous as the longest sport route in Ticnio. Actually I had been wanting to do this for a very long time, but for some reason I could never get down to climbing this and I lost interest. Then when Dieter asked me whether I can join him this weekend I said OK, I am not...

We did this climb a few months back. I just posted this report primarily for the pictures. Earlier trip reports describe the route pretty well :-0 The closest connection is normally Ruttenen, but since we didn't want to wait for the bus, we walked all the way from Solothurn, it was a pretty hike. The route is nice. One would...

Verspäteter Bericht zum Hikr-Treff 2010 auf der Bannalp. Nun, dieser Bericht kommt so verspätet, dass ich eigentlich gar nicht weiss, was ich schreiben soll. Deshalb belasse ich es dabei. Hoffe die Fotos sind wenigstens unterhaltsam. Werde nächstes Jahr wieder mehr schreiben...Danke an die Leute, die mir die Arbeit...

Eigentlich ist ja schon (fast) alles geschrieben zum Thema hikr-treff 2010! Sämtliche credits sind verteilt, Fotos angeschaut, Kommentare abgegeben... was kann jetzt noch Neues dazu kommen? Aber nach 8 langen Tagen des Wartens (nie erschien mir ein Schweizurlaub sooooooooooooooooo lang ) wollen meine Fingerkuppen auchnoch ein...

Wochenlang darauf gefreut, mit Spannung erwartet, endlich war das Hikr-Wochenende da. Von WoPo1961 initiiert und von Maesi organisiert und mit Hilfe eines Doodle koordiniert trafen die Teilnehmer einzeln oder in Gruppen zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten per ÖV oder per PW in Fell an der Talstation der Luftseilbahn zur Chrüzhütte...

Vorbau is a small peak, south of the much larger Bergseechijen peak and half an hour hike from Bergsee hutte, canton Uri, Switzerland. 3 pitches, max hardness f5c Pitch 1: This is f5c; my partner led this. I found it hard, cheated once by pulling the express :-) Pitch 2 and 3: I led pitch 2 (f5a). This pitch is nice...

Bergseechijen is an impressive mountain in Uri Alps. The route we did is Morgenstund, five pitches long and max hardness f5a, the easiest way up the SSE face. The climb was uneventful and went by smoothly. I led pitches 1 (5a) and 3 (4b); my partner led pitches 2 (4b), 4 (4c), and 5 (5a). Nice rock, didn't notice any...

EINE AUSSICHTSREICHE SPÄTSOMMER-BERGTOUR AUF DEN BARGLEN. Mein OW-Gipfel Nummer 112. Der Barglen oder Schiben ist einer der höchsten Gipfel rund um die Melchsee-Frutt. Dennoch wird er eher selten bestiegen obwohl die Route über die Hohmad ausgesprochen aussichtsreich ist und für erfahrene Alpinwanderer kein...