Day 1: Meet in Zermatt, review gear and condition. (Hotel night)
Day 2: Ride the Gornergrat train to Rottenboden. Hike to Monte Rosa Hut
Day 3: Ascent of Monte Rosa 4,634m. Continue and traverse to Grenzgipfel. Down climb to catch the ridge leading to Zumsteinspitze at 4,563m. Continue to Marguarita hut , Signalkuppe 4,554m. where we spend the night.
Day 4: Traverse of Ludwigshohe 4,341m. Parrotspitze 4,432m, . Balmenhorn 4,167m. Corno Nero 4,321m and Pyramid Vincent 4,215m, descent to Gnifetti hut for the night.
Day 5: Ascent of Liskamm. 4,527m. (depend on condition. Either via the ridge or the Naze) night at the Quintino Sella hut 3,585m.
Day 6: Climb Castor 4,228m. climb Pollux down to Val D’ayas hut
Day 7: climb and traverse the Breithorn. traverse to Klein Matterhorn and descent to Zermatt
Day 8: Rest day in Zermatt
Day 9: Hike to Hornli hut. Reconnaissance of the bottom part of the Matterhorn that we will climb in the dark the next day.
Day 10: Matterhorn Ascent, Along beautiful day. Weaking up at 3:00 am it is a 10 to 12 hours day of interesting climbing to an awesome peak. Return to Zermatt
Day 11: Extra day.
Difficulty:
This tour require a strong level of fitness, mountaineering experience walking with crampons, scrambling and easy rock
climbing.
Tour dates:
Any time between July 15 – September 15
Note:
The ratio for this tour and the Matterhorn ascent is 1:1
Tour for bigger group can be easily organize, but the tour and Matterhorn ascent remain with 1:1 ratio. Extra guides will join us.
Price:
- 1 person Call for pricing
Services Included:
- Professional guide fee & expenses
- 4 nights Hut fee with breakfast and dinner
- Transport during the tour
- Lift to Klein Mattehorn
- Train from gornergrat to Zermatt
- Group technical equipment
- Radio, first aid kit
Services Not Included:
- Hotel in Zermatt
- Meals in town
- Personal gear
- Transfer to and from Zermatt
- Pic-nic lunches, snacks
- incidentals