Tour Reports

Großglockner, Sep. 25

Wonderful moments that will stay with you on Austria's highest mountain.

The Hintergrat is a beautiful route up the Ortler: a sophisticated route leads over rocky outcrops and snowy ridges to its highest point. The climb is never particularly difficult, but the crux of the climb, a smooth 3-meter wall rated IV-,…

Rockclimbing, Valais Alps

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…

Rockclimbing

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

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…

Räthische Alpen

Piz Linard Southeastridge, August 25

As the highest mountain in the Silvretta Range, Piz Linard dominates the Lower Engadine. Its southeast ridge leads to its 3,410-meter summit with exceptionally beautiful, yet never difficult climbing. A delightful tour on solid, grippy rock…

Valais Alps

Dent Blanche, August 25

After a period of cool, showery weather, we manage to reach this fantastic summit in central Valais. The Cabane de la Dent Blanche is located at 3507 m, so the tour is relatively short if you consider the elevation gain alone (but you "pay"…

Valais Alps

Dom, July 25

At 4,545 meters, the Dom is the highest inland mountain in Switzerland, meaning its entire massif, including all its ridges, is located within the country. In July, the first half of summer, conditions are still good. There had been some fresh…

Rockclimbing

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,…