{"id":14535,"date":"2025-08-28T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/2025\/08\/28\/kreuzberge-august-25\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:31:08","slug":"kreuzberge-august-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/2025\/08\/28\/kreuzberge-august-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Kreuzberge, August 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, which we ascended via two enjoyable climbs.<\/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\/08\/20250824_190827.jpg\" title=\"The Hundstein Ridge\" data-caption=\"The Hundstein Ridge\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.0975609756098\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_190827-450x410.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_190827-450x410.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_190827-1076x980.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_190827-768x699.jpg 768w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_103918-250x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_103918-250x450.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_103918-544x980.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_103918-392x705.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_103918.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_121221.jpg\" title=\"Soon we are in the sun on top of Kreuzberg VIII\" data-caption=\"Soon we are in the sun on top of Kreuzberg VIII\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.56222222222222\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_121221-253x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_121221-253x450.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_121221-552x980.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_121221-397x705.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_121221.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536.jpg\" title=\"We climb the Kreuzberg VII and look back to VIII (left) and Muntschen\" data-caption=\"We climb the Kreuzberg VII and look back to VIII (left) and Muntschen\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.2162162162162\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-450x370.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-450x370.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-1191x980.jpg 1191w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-1536x1264.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-1500x1234.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536-705x580.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_130536.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_133524.jpg\" title=\"The belay for abseiling\" data-caption=\"The belay for abseiling\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.50222222222222\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_133524-226x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_133524-226x450.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_133524-492x980.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_133524-354x705.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_133524.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925.jpg\" title=\"The Kreuzberge VII (left) and VIII\" data-caption=\"The Kreuzberge VII (left) and VIII\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-450x253.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-1500x845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_140925.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_150329.jpg\" title=\"Kreuzberg I on the way back to the StauberenKanzel\" data-caption=\"Kreuzberg I on the way back to the StauberenKanzel\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.56222222222222\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_150329-253x450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_150329-253x450.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_150329-552x980.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_150329-397x705.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_150329.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, which we ascended via two enjoyable climbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockclimbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535","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=14535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14537,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions\/14537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}