Mountaineered to the top of Mount
Sustenhorn (3,503m, 11,493ft):
The
Sustenhorn from the valley
View back through the valley
The Sustenhorn with the Voralp
Hat in the foregrund. We stayed in the Voralp Hat overnight.
The following morning we would
climb up this slope and cross the ridge at throughpass at the lowest point.
Sunday Morning 4AM, leaving the
Voralp Hat
We have reached the ice and put
on the crampons.
Crossing the eternal snow
Having a quick break before
passing the ridge.
View shortly before the
ridge
Passing yet another ridge
The peak is already close (it
turned out that we were not the only ones on our way)
09:30AM. The final push towards
the peak. There are no pictures from the peak as we only spent 15-20 seconds
there. As soon as we realized that the peak was statically strong enough to
make the air hum as if one stood underneath a high-voltage power line and
strong enough to make everybody's hair raise vertically (literally), we
rushed down as quickly as possible.
Weather deteriorated very badly
and as we were making our way down the Stein Glacier we had already spent
hours in pouring rain.