{"id":14594,"date":"2025-09-01T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/2025\/09\/01\/lenzspitze-nadelhorn-aug-25\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:03:39","slug":"lenzspitze-nadelhorn-aug-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/2025\/09\/01\/lenzspitze-nadelhorn-aug-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenzspitze-Nadelhorn, Aug. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 generally unpopular among mountaineers because it is notorious for its brittleness. The situation is different here: the layered rock is surprisingly solid and offers ledges, cracks, and &#8220;handles&#8221; like gymnastic bars, which make for enjoyable climbing. A tour that any Western Alps enthusiast should take a closer look at.<\/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\/09\/20250815_050145.jpg\" title=\"Early in the morning, before daybreak, we find ourselves high on the northeast ridge of the Lenzspitze, while deep below us the mountaineers' chain of lights moves towards the Windjoch\" data-caption=\"Early in the morning, before daybreak, we find ourselves high on the northeast ridge of the Lenzspitze, while deep below us the mountaineers' chain of lights moves towards the Windjoch\" 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\/09\/20250815_050145-450x253.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145-1500x845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_050145.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101.jpg\" title=\"At dawn we are already climbing over the sharp ridge of the Gratgendarmen, behind us follows a second rope team\" data-caption=\"At dawn we are already climbing over the sharp ridge of the Gratgendarmen, behind us follows a second rope team\" 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\/09\/20250815_060101-450x253.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101-1500x845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250815_060101.jpg 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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 generally unpopular among mountaineers because it is notorious for its brittleness. The situation is different here: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockclimbing","category-valais-alps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594","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=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14596,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions\/14596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}