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Lenzspitze-Nadelhorn, Aug. 25

The encircling of the Hohbalm Glacier or the traverse of Lenzspitze and Nadelhorn are among the classics in the Mischabel Group. This tour is beautiful, long, and challenging. The rock that forms the two peaks is mica schist – generally unpopular…

Kreuzberge, August 25

The Alpstein region is a wonderful area in northeastern Switzerland: steep limestone mountains rise from lovely alpine pastures, stabbing, to paraphrase, like knife-edged peaks against the blue sky. The Kreuzberge VII and VIII are our destination,…

Rockclimbing on the Sustenpass, Aug. 25

Driving up the Susten Pass, a wonderful world of granite and gneiss mountains opens up. There are no 4,000-meter peaks in the Uri Alps here, so they're not as well-known as the great mountains of the Valais and Bernese Alps. But this landscape…

Piz Badile, July 25

Piz Badile is the epitome of a mountain: a monolith of iron-hard granite rock that dominates the deeply incised Val Bregaglia. Its northern ridge is the easiest route from Switzerland to its highest point: climbers must overcome mostly slabby,…

Grundschartner North-Ridge, June 25

Finally, it's here: the perfect day for the north ridge of the Grundschartner. My guest Pit and I happen to have the same day off; it's just after the summer solstice; the weather is warm, actually very hot, and thunderstorm-free! The Grundschartner's…
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Arête du Diable, July 30th 2024

Aréte de diable - the devil's ridge, leads over a total of 5 granite towers to the Mont Blanc du Tacul. The climbing is fantastic, very steep in sections and - according to the Chamoniards - rated hard. Nevertheless, I personally think that…

August 3rd 2019: Salbitschijen South Ridge

It is a logical line that leads over the south ridge on the 2981 m high Salbitschijen in Uri Land. In about 20 pitches you climb the imposing granite obelisk, taking advantage of splendid cracks and dihedrals, climbing over rough slabs, proceeding…

July 28th to 31st 2019: Granite Climbing – Pizzo Badile Northeast Face

So powerful, aloof and smooth, it appears to the viewer: the northeast face of Pizzo Badile in Bergell. It is all the more astonishing that the first-time climbers have found their way through this seemingly unstructured bulwark of compact granite.…