Pas de Chevres++

Datum:

16.07.2022

Col des Torrents

Datum:

14.07.2022

Lagginhorn

Datum:

11.07.2022

Tourcharakter:

Wanderung

Tourlänge:

6:20h

Entfernung:

10,4km

© Hannah Vickers I had a few days to spare before I should have been flying home (thanks to SAS I didn't and got delayed by an extra 9 days instead) and decided to go for a last visit to 4000m and hike up the Lagginhorn via the west ridge. Had expected a little more scrambling but it turned out to be just a walk. In comparison to the Weissmies south ridge this was a bit dull but a well marked, nice walk nonetheless and the views were OK! 5h 40m up and back to the Weissmies hut, then a break before walking down to the lift t Kreuzboden.

Täschhorn

Datum:

08.07.2022

Tourcharakter:

Alpinklettern

Tourlänge:

9:35h

Entfernung:

14,8km

© Hannah Vickers The final two days climbing with Graham this year were planned to be spent on the Täschhorn-Dom traverse, although when we left Evolene early on the thursday morning the weather forecast was indicating pretty strong winds up high for both days and I was a bit concerned about whether it would end up being too much wind for doing an exposed ridge traverse. We decided to stick with the plan and see how things turned out anyway. We were planning to do the traverse and descend all the way back down to the valley in one day, so a lot of food was packed both for snacks and for dinner/breakfast at the Mischabeljoch bivouac hut, which was the starting point for the south ridge of the Täschhorn. Originally we’d thought to go up to the bivouac hut by starting from Täschalp and hiking up the Weingarten >>>

Jungfrau

Datum:

06.07.2022

Tourcharakter:

Hochtour

Tourlänge:

6:54h

Entfernung:

9,6km

© Hannah Vickers After Les Droites the weather forecast for my final week in the Alps, with the exception of Monday, was supposed to be more settled, sunny and warm and it looked like the perfect opportunity to (finally) try and do the Täschhorn-Dom traverse which I’d been wanting to do for several years. Initially it seemed like a good idea to head up on the tuesday to the Mischabeljoch bivouac hut and do the traverse the following day, but after discovering the hut was fully booked for tuesday night we decided to scrap that plan. I wasn’t too sure about doing the traverse on thursday either since the forecast was showing cloudier weather so in the end I suggested to Graham that we go to the Jungfrau at the start of the week and try to do the Täschhorn-Dom traverse thursday/friday to make the most of the good weather. >>>

Les Droites

Datum:

30.06.2022

Tourcharakter:

Alpinklettern

Tourlänge:

13:29h

Entfernung:

10,9km

© Hannah Vickers Les Droites was a bit unlike some of the other 4000m peaks in the sense that it wasn't one that I have really wanted to do for years – but one that is on the list of the 50 principal 4000m peaks in Martin Moran’s guidebook. But it kind of fitted in nicely as a 3-day trip with Dave after a couple of days of bad weather and we’d found out that the normal route up the south ridge of the East summit was still “doable” according to a German guide who’d been there the previous week, even though conditions were very dry for the time of year and the access couloir no longer had a decent snow cover. We headed up to the Couvercle hut, the starting point for the normal route by taking the train up to Montenvers from Chamonix, then used the telecabine to join the long series of stairs that lead >>>

Cabane Des Dix

Datum:

26.06.2022

Weissmies

Datum:

25.06.2022

Tourcharakter:

Hochtour

Tourlänge:

8:49h

Entfernung:

14,0km

© Hannah Vickers I've been wanting to do a "proper" alpine route solo for a few years and the south ridge of the Weissmies seemed to be a friendly option for a first solo route. I'd done it a couple of years earlier when it was plastered in new snow, but after last weekend's heatwave most ridges were now dry and clear of snow so it appeared to be an ideal opportunity to do it again. I booked a night at the Almageller hut and half expected to be the only British person there, but I ended up meeting quite a few other British guys there and had a much more social afternoon than expected chatting with them in the dining room. Had breakfast at 4am the following morning and thought I would end up behind queues of other climbers on the approach to the Zwichbergenpass, but they were taking so long to get ready >>>

Lauteraarhorn

Datum:

17.06.2022

Tourcharakter:

Alpinklettern

Tourlänge:

18:00h

Entfernung:

30,0km

© Hannah Vickers The Lauteraarhorn has been sitting on my to-do list for the last few years, or basically ever since climbing the Schreckhorn but not continuing to do the traverse across to the Lauteraarhorn. Rather than going back from the Schreckhorn side, the other alternative was to approach it from the Grimsel Hospice to the east and ascend the Lauteraarhorn via its south face couloir and southeast ridge. However, with the length of the walk-in to this route being of the typical Oberland expedition type (i.e. LONG!) I’d sort of hoped that it might have ended up being an approach that I could do on skis. Of course the one year that I manage to get to the Alps with skis it turns out to be one of the driest winter/spring seasons ever, so there was basically too little snow to bother with a ski-in to the Aar bivouac >>>

Cabane de Bertol

Datum:

12.06.2022