{"id":13788,"date":"2025-05-21T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/2025\/05\/21\/dufourspitze-x-3-may-25\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:51:24","slug":"dufourspitze-x-3-may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/2025\/05\/21\/dufourspitze-x-3-may-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Dufourspitze x 3, May 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second week of May 2025, conditions on the second-highest mountain range in the Alps were almost perfect: up to 30 cm of powder snow from the ski depot at 4,300 m to 3,500 m. A few meters of broken crust were bearable, as we were then able to carve our turns on the finest firn snow all the way to the Monte Rosa Hut. I was able to congratulate my guests three times at the summit cross.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"1\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-title captions-effect-none \" data-rgg-id=\"1\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_065601.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Lyskamm\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_065601-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_065809.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Morning on the Monte Rosa Glacier\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_065809-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_065818.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"After a snow shower in the morning, the Matterhorn peeks out from between the clouds\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_065818-450x380.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.1842105263158\" data-height=\"380\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_074122.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"It's cold in the shadow of the mountain during the early ascent\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_074122-450x434.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.036866359447\" data-height=\"434\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_104318.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"The last tower before the summit\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_104318-253x450.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.56222222222222\" data-height=\"450\" data-width=\"253\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110036.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Neighboring mountains: Nordend,...\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110036-450x374.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.2032085561497\" data-height=\"374\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110039.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"...Dunantspitze,...\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110039-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110046.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"...Zumsteinspitze and Capanna Regina Margherita\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110046-374x450.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.83111111111111\" data-height=\"450\" data-width=\"374\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110323.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Gornergletscher\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110323-450x447.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.006711409396\" data-height=\"447\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110331.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Crevasses in the Grenzgletscher\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512_110331-450x411.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.0948905109489\" data-height=\"411\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_082906.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"We'll make our way back to the valley the next day\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_082906-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_083714.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Our route takes us over the Saaser L&uuml;cke (Saas Gap)\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_083714-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_083724.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"A short via ferrata leads us over the pass...\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_083724-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_092034.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"...and leads us to the Gorner Glacier, where we enjoy one last descent\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_092034-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_110443.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"One last look\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_110443-253x450.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.56222222222222\" data-height=\"450\" data-width=\"253\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_103329-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Return to Rotenboden with the Monte Rosa massif behind us\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250513_103329-1-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_113330.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Snow showers drifting over the Monte Rosa massif\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_113330-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_115044-e1747833388485.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Ibex on the way to the glacier Gletscher\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_115044-383x450.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.85111111111111\" data-height=\"450\" data-width=\"383\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_142547.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Fixed rope to the Saaser L&uuml;cke\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_142547-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_143352.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Monte Rosa H&uuml;tte from the Saaser L&uuml;cke\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_143352-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_162020.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"&quot;z' vieri&quot; in the Monte Rosa Hut\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_162020-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_060307.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Cold morning on the Monte Rosa Gletscher\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_060307-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_115219.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"The summit is near\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_115219-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_120019.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"4634 m above sealevel\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_120019-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_133155.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"First turns from the Sattel\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508_133155-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510_082237.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Ascent to Dufourspitze in the sun\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510_082237-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510_085056.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Iceformations on the Monte Rosa Gletscher\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510_085056-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510_121836.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Again on the summit\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510_121836-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250511_060757.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Breithorn in first daylight\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250511_060757-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250511_084251.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Group of ski-mountaineers on the Gornergletscher\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250511_084251-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"\">\n                            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second week of May 2025, conditions on the second-highest mountain range in the Alps were almost perfect: up to 30 cm of powder snow from the ski depot at 4,300 m to 3,500 m. A few meters of broken crust were bearable, as we were then able to carve our turns on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skidurchquerungen-en","category-valais-alps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13794,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions\/13794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}