It took me two years to be back on top of Mont Blanc, after several summer attempts and one in the spring time when we had to bail due to poor conditions on the mountain. Once again September proves to be the perfect month to climb the Mont Blanc via the Gouter route, the temperature generally goes down to “normal”,…
The Weissmies and the Lagginhorn are two 4000m peaks in the Swiss Alps, the normal routes are fairly easy and popular, but if you have a couple days available then you should consider to traverse these two peaks, starting from Saas Almagell and then descend to Saas Grund via Hohsaas on the second day. The south ridge of the Weissmies…
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Alpinism and mountaineering in the end of july around the Bernese Oberland and Saas Valley. Aletschgletscher, traverse of Dri Hornlini and Weissmies traverse.
To be honest, this is not the right summer to do some alpinism and mountaineering around the glaciers of the Alps, somewhat like in 2003. We had a general dry winter all over the Alps, then in June we were already roasting because of the heat wave that brought the isotherm over 5000 meters. The snow disappeared below 3000 meters…