Classic Alpinism, Entreve, Nadelhorn, Rimfishorn
I've just had a great weeks classic Alpinism with brian and Liz this week. We kicked off traversing the Entreve from the Helbronner lift, this provved a bit to exciting when an Italian party of three fell off in front of us. They were off route moving together when the second fell pulling off the leader, luckily he had only damaged his knee and hands and a rescue helicopter from Aosta was very quick to arrive. On Monday we drove round to Saas and headed to the Mischabel hut this is a really steep walk in with Cables and the hut irritatingly visible all the way. We climbed the nadelhorn the next morning in perfect conditions before the knee pounding horror that was the descent. We had a great night in Saas then moved to Zermatt in the morning heading to the Flue Alp hotel a great piece of Victorian comfort in the mountains with a really short walk in. Our target for the next day was the Rimfishorn or the middle of F***ing no where horn as it got christened. Martin Moran decribes it as a peak to respect which I would agree with. there are no easy routes and the mountain stands in a superbly remote situation. There were a few other teams about but we had the summit to ourselves. We had a long descent to the valley then had a night in Zermatt having a great curry in the Pipe resteraunt which I can definitley reccomend. We planned to climb the breithorn form the first lift in the morning but the weather was to windy.