Climbed on a beautiful sunny day with Terry Ralphs. We took the first cable car (7:30) from Saas Grund and were at the summit by mid day. Excellent views.
Route Climbed: south east ridge Date Climbed: 12 july 2001
Started in the morning in complete fog but just before we reached the zwischenbergenpass the clouds disappeared and we had a great view to monte rose, alphubel dom (photo). Nice climb on easy rock's to reach over a small crest to the summit, down to hohsaas and saas grund.
Route Climbed: Traverse via SSE Ridge to NW Flank / North Ridge / Traverse via North Ridge to SSE Ridge Date Climbed: august 2003 / july 2006 / august 2009
2003: Nice climb in rather bad conditions, but not that difficult and with an amazing sunrise. Great beginning of our vacation.
2006: Made an attempt on the North Ridge. Reached the Lagginjoch around 6 o'clock and then decided to turn back because weather didn't look nice at all and, I must admit, the view on the ridge up there is rather frightening...
2009: After 3 years I was back for a second attempt on the North Ridge. The weather was good and I was mentally ready for the climb. Without any problems we reached the summit after 6 hours of climbing on a splendid ridge. Not willing to search our way between the hordes of people and the crevasses on the NW Flank, we descended easily and alone via the SSE Ridge to the Almagellerhütte.
August 6th 1991 - normal route from Weissmies hut:
The glacier had quite good conditions. It was a beautiful day, so calm that we could watch someone start with his parachute from the summit. But the day ended sadly as we had to watch a climber fall to death from Weisskugel north ridge.
July 28th 2004
traverse from Almageler hut to Weissmies hut.
Beautiful day. From Zwischenbergen pass we stayed on the rocky ridge though following the snow fields on the east side might be shorter. Climbing was amusing and not difficult. Descent on the glacier to Hohsass had still good conditions.
Route Climbed: SSE-ridge ascent, descending NW-route Date Climbed: August 12 2003
Great weather, nice route, what could you want more? Plus a "playground" in the mid-section of the NW-face: for a breef moment we could really feel like the guys in the Khumbu. But it has to be said: this is not normal!! When are people going to realize we are really ruining our planet with our industries etc. (Start rating Kyoto-protocol, ALL OF U!)
Route Climbed: Travers of the Weissmies Date Climbed: 20 Aug 2003
We started from the Almagellerhut and climbed solo over the SSE-ridge and went down over the NW-flank of the mountain. It was great to start our vacation with in Wallis this year. Nice views over the Monta rosa area !
Route Climbed: Normal route from Hohsaas Date Climbed: August 13th, 2003
Thanks to the abnormal glacierconditions it was a very exciting ascent. We had to cross ladders, boards and everything else you can imagine on a glacier, this year Weissmies was a little Kumbu. Made it in one day, which was not such a good idea, going down with this temperature and those countless crevasses was really dangerous!
Route Climbed: Regular from Hohsaas Date Climbed: 15 september 2002
On the top in three hours from Hohsaas through the Triftgletscher and the icefall . On the topridge, a strong northwind decorated the corniced summit with a huge snowwreath.
The route snakes its way through some impressive crevasses, but it took our group too long.
It was a fun day out from the Weissmies hut with Beni, Geraldine and Robin, but we were too late in getting to the final shrund at 3800m. It was also impressively wide, nobody had passed up it but a couple had jumped over it from above. I was impressed.
The Jagihorn offers a fun Kletterstieg reachable from the hut in one hour. Almost like the Dolomites!
andrea.it - Jul 13, 2004 11:07 am
Route Climbed: normal route west flank Date Climbed: 3 july 2004Climbed in one day without acclimatation.Terrible headache!!
shachar00 - Jun 8, 2004 8:20 am
Route Climbed: North-West Date Climbed: 23/8/2003Climbed on a beautiful sunny day with Terry Ralphs. We took the first cable car (7:30) from Saas Grund and were at the summit by mid day. Excellent views.
klimsmurf - Jun 5, 2004 2:29 pm
Route Climbed: Normal route from Weissmies Hut Date Climbed: August 2003Nice climb but a lot of people
pvangeenen - Apr 26, 2004 1:39 pm
Route Climbed: south east ridge Date Climbed: 12 july 2001Started in the morning in complete fog but just before we reached the zwischenbergenpass the clouds disappeared and we had a great view to monte rose, alphubel dom (photo). Nice climb on easy rock's to reach over a small crest to the summit, down to hohsaas and saas grund.
Eelconl - Feb 16, 2004 1:53 pm
Route Climbed: Normal from Hohsaas Date Climbed: 2001After a week of illness I tried to climb again. Used more than 3 hours, and I was exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!
David_Holland - Jan 22, 2004 1:57 pm
Route Climbed: Normal Route from Hohsaas Date Climbed: 26-07-2001Beautiful climb!
il.rocciatore - Dec 6, 2003 11:39 am
Route Climbed: Traverse via SSE Ridge to NW Flank / North Ridge / Traverse via North Ridge to SSE Ridge Date Climbed: august 2003 / july 2006 / august 20092003: Nice climb in rather bad conditions, but not that difficult and with an amazing sunrise. Great beginning of our vacation.
2006: Made an attempt on the North Ridge. Reached the Lagginjoch around 6 o'clock and then decided to turn back because weather didn't look nice at all and, I must admit, the view on the ridge up there is rather frightening...
2009: After 3 years I was back for a second attempt on the North Ridge. The weather was good and I was mentally ready for the climb. Without any problems we reached the summit after 6 hours of climbing on a splendid ridge. Not willing to search our way between the hordes of people and the crevasses on the NW Flank, we descended easily and alone via the SSE Ridge to the Almagellerhütte.
Mathias Zehring - Dec 4, 2003 1:48 pm
Route Climbed: various Date Climbed: 1991 - 2004August 6th 1991 - normal route from Weissmies hut:
The glacier had quite good conditions. It was a beautiful day, so calm that we could watch someone start with his parachute from the summit. But the day ended sadly as we had to watch a climber fall to death from Weisskugel north ridge.
July 28th 2004
traverse from Almageler hut to Weissmies hut.
Beautiful day. From Zwischenbergen pass we stayed on the rocky ridge though following the snow fields on the east side might be shorter. Climbing was amusing and not difficult. Descent on the glacier to Hohsass had still good conditions.
nicowuyts - Aug 29, 2003 1:29 pm
Route Climbed: SSE-ridge ascent, descending NW-route Date Climbed: August 12 2003Great weather, nice route, what could you want more? Plus a "playground" in the mid-section of the NW-face: for a breef moment we could really feel like the guys in the Khumbu. But it has to be said: this is not normal!! When are people going to realize we are really ruining our planet with our industries etc. (Start rating Kyoto-protocol, ALL OF U!)
jsurinx - Aug 29, 2003 5:16 am
Route Climbed: Travers of the Weissmies Date Climbed: 20 Aug 2003We started from the Almagellerhut and climbed solo over the SSE-ridge and went down over the NW-flank of the mountain. It was great to start our vacation with in Wallis this year. Nice views over the Monta rosa area !
Chandra - Aug 21, 2003 3:25 am
Route Climbed: Normal route from Hohsaas Date Climbed: August 13th, 2003Thanks to the abnormal glacierconditions it was a very exciting ascent. We had to cross ladders, boards and everything else you can imagine on a glacier, this year Weissmies was a little Kumbu. Made it in one day, which was not such a good idea, going down with this temperature and those countless crevasses was really dangerous!
andre hangaard - Mar 13, 2003 3:30 pm
Route Climbed: Weissmies hut-Hoh Saas-Trift Glacier-Weissmies Date Climbed: 31 August 2002Doing Weissmies solo.
Rain in the evening. 4.00am bad weather conditions.
Although clearing up. Late start. 6.00am Easy but steep track. Three hours to summit. No view. Need to return someday.... great mountain!
Farmer - Oct 5, 2002 1:23 am
Route Climbed: South ridge - traverse to Weissmieshut Date Climbed: Juli 95Nice tour from Almagellerhut, not difficult just fun. II max. Glacier is tricky to -or from the Weissmieshut to summit. Many accidents occer here!
Huberschwiller - Sep 16, 2002 1:22 pm
Route Climbed: Regular from Hohsaas Date Climbed: 15 september 2002On the top in three hours from Hohsaas through the Triftgletscher and the icefall . On the topridge, a strong northwind decorated the corniced summit with a huge snowwreath.
Moni - Aug 13, 2002 8:17 am
Route Climbed: North Ridge & Trift Glacier / Triftgrat Date Climbed: 1 Aug 1983 & 10 Aug 1995Climbed with Dres Schild in 1983.
A fun climb of about 5.1 to 5.4 rock up to the final snow ridge. Descended the normal route.
With Fred Spicker the second time
Fred Spicker - Jul 25, 2002 1:55 pm
Route Climbed: Trift Glacier / Triftgrat Date Climbed: 10 Aug 1995Climbed with Monica Spicker.
Enrico iammaria - Jul 24, 2002 10:52 am
Route Climbed: Normal route (triftgletscher) Date Climbed: 18/jul/2002Easy and good ascent.The snow are hard.
Vinny - Jun 28, 2002 7:35 am
Route Climbed: West Route Date Climbed: June 2001The route snakes its way through some impressive crevasses, but it took our group too long.
It was a fun day out from the Weissmies hut with Beni, Geraldine and Robin, but we were too late in getting to the final shrund at 3800m. It was also impressively wide, nobody had passed up it but a couple had jumped over it from above. I was impressed.
The Jagihorn offers a fun Kletterstieg reachable from the hut in one hour. Almost like the Dolomites!
Oh well.
Henning Lege - Jun 13, 2002 5:48 am
Route Climbed: SE-ridge from Almageller hut Date Climbed: 10-September-2000Excellent enjoyable ridge climbing!
FitzroyPeak - May 22, 2002 4:34 am
Route Climbed: Normal way Date Climbed: July 21th 2000My first 4000