{"id":15422,"date":"2026-05-16T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/2026\/05\/16\/weisshorn-july-25\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:44:10","slug":"weisshorn-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/2026\/05\/16\/weisshorn-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weisshorn, July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A summit rising 3100 meters above the valley floor is a rare find. The Weisshorn in the Valais Alps is one such example. The 1500-meter ascent to the hut alone\u2014with no cable car in sight\u2014is a tour in itself. But then, at 2 a.m. the next morning, things really get going&#8230;   <\/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\/07\/20250711_162628.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Ibex at the approach to the Weisshornh&uuml;tte\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250711_162628-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"Approach to the  Weisshornh\u00fctte\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_055630.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"High-altitude tour of the Weisshorn: View of the Matterhorn, Zinalrothorn and Schalihorn in the first light\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_055630-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"High-altitude tour of the Weisshorn: View of the Matterhorn, Zinalrothorn and Schalihorn in the first light\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_055632.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"High-altitude tour Weisshorn: View towards Monte Rosa\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_055632-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"High-altitude tour Weisshorn: View towards Monte Rosa\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_084509.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"On the summit of the 4505 m high Weisshorn\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_084509-450x253.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.7786561264822\" data-height=\"253\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"At the summit of the 4505 m high Weisshorn\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_085228.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"Panorama opposite the Weisshorn: Dom, T&auml;schhorn, Alphubel, Allalin and Rimpfischhorn\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_085228-450x210.jpg\" data-ratio=\"2.1428571428571\" data-height=\"210\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"Panorama opposite the Weisshorn: Dom, T\u00e4schhorn, Alphubel, Allalin and Rimpfischhorn\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_085234.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"High-altitude tour of the Weisshorn: View of the Monte Rosa group\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_085234-450x210.jpg\" data-ratio=\"2.1428571428571\" data-height=\"210\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"High-altitude tour of the Weisshorn: View of the Monte Rosa group\">\n                            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_085241.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgg\" rel=\"rgg\" title=\"The obligatory summit self-portrait\" class=\"rgg-disabled size-medium rgg-img\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250712_085241-450x210.jpg\" data-ratio=\"2.1428571428571\" data-height=\"210\" data-width=\"450\" aria-label=\"At the summit of the Weisshorn\">\n                            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summit rising 3100 meters above the valley floor is a rare find. The Weisshorn in the Valais Alps is one such example. The 1500-meter ascent to the hut alone\u2014with no cable car in sight\u2014is a tour in itself. But then, at 2 a.m. the next morning, things really get going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valais-alps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","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=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firngrat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}