Matterhorn, Hornli ridge
GradeD
Days2
Highest point4 478 m
Price2 900 EUR
At a glance
Twelve hundred metres of ridge on the most famous mountain there is. One guide, one climber, no hurry.
The Hornli ridge is long rather than hard: a thousand metres of rock steps, fixed ropes near the top and a narrow snow summit. Speed matters, so we climb it only with people we have climbed with before, usually on our Matterhorn week. We sleep at the Hornli hut, start by headtorch and aim to be back at the hut by early afternoon.
- Season
- July to September
- Rope
- 1 guide, 1 climber
- Grade
- D
- Price
- from 2 900 EUR per person
The line
Altitude along the route, from the first step to the last. The dots are the places we stop.
- 2 583 mSchwarzsee
- 3 260 mHornli hut
- 4 003 mSolvay hut
- 4 250 mThe shoulder
- 4 478 mSummit
- 3 260 mHornli hut
- Schwarzsee2 583 m
- Hornli hut3 260 m
- Solvay hut4 003 m
- The shoulder4 250 m
- Summit4 478 m
- Hornli hut3 260 m
Day by day
The plan we start from. The weather and your pace decide the rest.
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Day 1
Up to the hut
Cable car to Schwarzsee and a walk to the Hornli hut at the foot of the ridge. We look at the first steps together.
+700 m
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Day 2
The ridge
Start at 04:20 with the first teams, the Solvay hut by sunrise, the ropes of the shoulder and the summit cross. Then the same way down, carefully.
+1 220 m, -1 900 m
Before you come
- A week of climbing with us first
- Moving fast on easy rock in boots
- Fitness for ten hours on the go
Included
- Your guide, one to one
- Hut night with dinner and breakfast
- Guide's lift, hut and food
- Rope and group gear
You bring
- Light mountaineering boots
- Crampons and a light axe
- Helmet, harness, gloves
- Lift tickets
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