As part of our Italian High Level Route we had a spectacular day, climbing four 4000 metre peaks: Pyramid Vincent (4215m), the Balmhorn (4167m) – not much more than a small rock with via ferrata, the Zumsteinspitze (4563m) – high point of our trip, and the Signalkuppe (4556m) – topped off with the highest tea » read more »
Directly after finishing our Tour des Combin we we went round to Zermatt and met up with British Mountain Guides Kathy Murphy and Cube to do some high level glacier treking & Hutting with a bit of easy 4000m peak bagging too. Our group was Roger, Patrick, Jane, Jon, Martin and another Phil. Day » read more »
We did the Tour des Combin with Roger, Patrick, Chris, Richard & Penny. Its a fantastic trek around the Grand Combin massif, taking in some really nice mountain huts and some high (2800m) passes. Here’s our itinerary: (we did the route anti-clockwise) Day 1: BOURG ST PIERRE Flew out to BSP and stayed at » read more »
2 weeks Hutting in the Lechtaler with Patrick; tough trip with lots of fixed equipment but great fun. Flew out to Munich and got a train to St. Anton am Arlberg – Haus Bachseite was a great place to stay! Day 1: to the Ulmer Hut Day 2: to the Kaiserjochaus Day 3: to the Simms » read more »
We had a day out bagging the relatively easy Allalinhorn 4027m peak from Saas Fee.
Author: Phil Newby