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Matterhorn Guided Ascent Ex Zermatt 2021
MATTERHORN 4,478M / 14,691FT EX ZERMATT 2021 TRIP NOTES MATTERHON EX ZERMATT TRIP NOTES 2021 TRIP DETAILS Dates: Available on demand July to September Duration: 6 days Departure: ex Zermatt, Switzerland Price: €5,870 per person A classic ‘must-do’ European climb. Photo: Mike Roberts The Matterhorn is undeniably the most magnificent and well-known peak in the Alps. Its bold pyramidal shape evokes emotions of wonderment and even fear in those who view it for the first time, as its four distinct faces stand omnipotent and menacing over the green meadows below. Separated by sharp ridges, the four faces are orientated to the four points of the compass, the northern aspects within Switzerland while the southern side lies in Italy. We ascend via the Hörnli Ridge that separates the rich heritage adds to the superb facilities, including North and East Faces via a long and technical route catered huts and lift systems offering services not requiring the utmost attention from climbers. The seen elsewhere. steep rock ridge is very involving and a successful attempt requires a rapid rate of ascent and full The Hörnli Ridge is the route by which the concentration by a fit party. The steep North and Matterhorn’s first ascent was made in 1865 by the East Faces drop away spectacularly on either side tenacious Englishman, Edward Whymper, after and the sense of exposure is dramatic. many attempts on the mountain. In what became the most famous alpine calamity of all time, the With its formidable history and the magnificent group suffered a terrible tragedy on the descent grandeur of its architecture, the Hörnli Ridge on when a rope broke resulting in the loss of four of the Matterhorn is a climb that is definitely worth the party. -
THE NORDEND of MONTE ROSA. T. Graham Brown
THE • VOL. LIII NOVEMBER I 942 NO. 265 THE NORDEND OF MONTE ROSA BY T. GRAHAM BROWN Substance of a lecture delivered before the Alpine Club, December g, 1941. T is curious to reflect that the ascent of the N ordend might have been one of the most popular in the Alps had the Dufourspitze been but 83 ft. lower. As things are, the mountain is relatively neglected. The usual route to its graceful summit lies off the beaten track, and more .often than not the N ordend is omitted during traverses of the Monte Rosa peaks ; parties from the Marinelli hut seem almost invariably to take the easier but more dangerous route to the Dufour spitze in preference to the more difficult ascent of the N ordend by its stupendous Macugnaga face ; the sensational Frontier arete, 1 which plunges to the Jagerjoch in vertical steps, has rarely been visited ; and (to the best of my knowledge) the wide and steep Weisstor (or N.E.) face of the N ordend has so far received attention from but a single climbing party. To these striking neglects may be added a fifth: on only one former occasion, and that was nearly thirty years ago, has the Nordend been the subject of a paper read before the Club.2 The event deserves to be recalled, because it was then that E. A. Broome described his expedition of 191 I, when, in the course of the day, he ascended the Macugnaga face from the Marinelli hut and descended by the ordinary route to the Riffelhaus the memorable achievement of a great climber who was in his sixty-seventh year at the time of the ascent. -
1 Tydzień = 5 X 4000 M Npm
1 tydzień = 5 x 4000 m npm Pomysł na tygodniowy wyjazd alpejski zapadł jeszcze w czerwcu. Głównym celem na 7 dni w Alpach dla mnie i Marcina stał się Weisshorn (4505 m). Szczyt trudny do zdobycia ze względu na wysokość i odległość podejścia z „bazy”, czyli wioski Randa zlokalizowanej przed słynnym ale nieco niższym Matterhornem. Pomysł zainteresował także szersze grono wspinaczy naszego KW. Jednak skład wykrystalizował się tuż przed terminem wyjazdu i ostatecznie do Randy udali się: Marcin Miczke, Maciej Przebitkowski. Radek Sołtykowski i ja – Jacek Wichłacz. Termin: 8 – 16.08.2012r. Czyli tzw. długi weekend. Już następnego dnia, po rozbiciu namiotu na campingu w Randzie udaliśmy się na wyjścia aklimatyzacyjne. Z braku miejsc w schronisku wyjście do Weisshornhutte musieliśmy przesunąć do soboty. Razem zatem - czyli w czwórkę - wjechaliśmy kolejką na Klein Matterhorn i tu nasze drogi nieoczekiwanie się rozeszły. Jak się potem okazało na 5 dni. Marcin i ja postanowiliśmy wejść na Roccia Nera (4075 m) i jak czas pozwoli na kolejny czterotysięcznik - Polluxa (4092 m). Maciej i Radek mieli pomysł aby wejść na coś lekkiego np. na Castora (4228 m) , przespać się dla lepszej aklimatyzacji w najbliższym schronisku Quintino Sella (3587 m.n.p.m.) i wrócić w tempie wypoczynkowo-spacerowym do Randy następnego dnia. Zgodnie z założeniami nasze aklimatyzacyjne wejścia dokonaliśmy na 2 wytyczone 4 - tysięczniki prawie bez chwili przerwy (nawet nie było czasu na zjedzenie drugiego śniadania). Ale skończyłyby się to o mało co „ kiblem” na stacji kolejki. Na jej ostatni zjazd zdążyliśmy 3 min. przed odjazdem w dół. O mały włos a aklimatyzacja Marcina i moja trwałaby o noc dłużej i to w warunkach dość ubogich. -
The New Monte Rosa Hut
Beautifully efficient: the New Monte Rosa Hut The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) are intending to set a new milestone in Alpine building with the New Monte Rosa Hut. The foundation stone was laid in August 2008. The mountain hut is one of many projects initiated to mark the 150th anniversary of the ETH Zurich. It is an ambitious building project for a forward-looking SAC hut on 2883 metres above sea level, sustainable in terms of energy and ecology. The SAC was quick to agree to the project. The internationally known Monte Rosa area in the Swiss Canton of Valais, framed by the Matterhorn and the Dufourspitze, was chosen for the planned hut. The existing hut there is in need of refurbishment, and so the project partners decided to replace it with the New Monte Rosa Hut. In the winter term 2003/2004, the Studio Monte Rosa at the ETH Zurich’s architecture and construction department was set up. Working over four terms, a total of over thirty students devised a design for the New Monte Rosa Hut. The student’s ideas developed into a feasible project with the support of professors and experts from various disciplines. So now a five-storey timber construction is to be built on stainless steel foundations thrusting down into the rock. Its metallically shimmering aluminium outer covering and unusual polygonal shape make it look like a rock crystal. The guest rooms can accommodate a total of 120 people, and the enchanting surroundings are effectively invited in as well, by a cascade of steps and a wide window facade. -
A Combination of PROBA-V/MODIS-Based Products with Sentinel-1 SAR Data for Detecting Wet and Dry Snow Cover in Mountainous Areas
remote sensing Article A Combination of PROBA-V/MODIS-Based Products with Sentinel-1 SAR Data for Detecting Wet and Dry Snow Cover in Mountainous Areas Ya-Lun S. Tsai 1,* , Andreas Dietz 1, Natascha Oppelt 2 and Claudia Kuenzer 1 1 German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Muenchener Strasse 20, D-82234 Wessling, Germany 2 Department of Geography, Earth Observation and Modelling, Kiel University, Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 14, 24118 Kiel, Germany * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 24 June 2019; Accepted: 13 August 2019; Published: 14 August 2019 Abstract: In the present study, we explore the value of employing both vegetation indexes as well as land surface temperature derived from Project for On-Board Autonomy—Vegetation (PROBA-V) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors, respectively, to support the detection of total (wet + dry) snow cover extent (SCE) based on a simple tuning machine learning approach and provide reliability maps for further analysis. We utilize Sentinel-1-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations, including backscatter coefficient, interferometric coherence, and polarimetric parameters, and four topographical factors as well as vegetation and temperature information to detect the total SCE with a land cover-dependent random forest-based approach. Our results show that the overall accuracy and F-measure are over 90% with an ’Area Under the receiver operating characteristic Curve (ROC)’ (AUC) score of approximately 80% over five study areas located in different mountain ranges, continents, and hemispheres. These accuracies are also confirmed by a comprehensive validation approach with different data sources, attesting the robustness and global transferability. -
PARIS CHAMONIX Une Haute Route De La Valpelline
bulletin des Clubs alpins français d’Ile-de-France avril mai 2016 // numéro 235 // 5 euros Paris Chamonix alpinisme Une traversée à ciel ouvert Fontanella › Château des Dames randonnée pédestre Automne en Cévenne ardéchoise ski de montagne Une haute route de la Valpelline ISSN 1269-4339 www.clubalpin-idf.com Paris Chamonix//numéro 235//avril mai 2016 À gauche : les mains sur la tête pour symboliser le toit du monde:l’Himalaya ; Environnement à droite : requiem pour les glaciers andins. Le Caf à la COP21 in situ qui montre les dégâts que feront les conscience de l’impact très grave du chan- Plusieurs associations alpines se sont asso- 2° d’augmentation de température moyenne gement climatique en montagne. Quelques ciées sous l’égide de l’UIAA (Union interna- vers lesquels nous nous dirigeons. Tibétains et Andins qui avaient participé à tionale des associations d’alpinisme) dont Des photographies présentées sur le stand une manifestation silencieuse quelques jours la FFCAM est membre, pour représenter la ont permis de visualiser l’évolution récente plus tôt, se sont joints à nous. montagne, ses habitants et ses pratiquants des glaciers, leur fonte s’accompagnant L’accord de Paris a été signé par les repré- lors de la COP21. C’est ainsi que des béné- d’une augmentation des écroulements ro- sentants des 186 pays qui ont participé aux voles se sont relayés au Bourget sur notre cheux, d’un risque accru de glissements de discussions, stand situé dans l’« Espace Générations terrains et d’inondations dues aux ruptures Plusieurs rendez-vous auront lieu par la suite : climat ». -
Recent Debris Flow Occurrences Associated with Glaciers in the Alps ⁎ Marta Chiarle A, , Sara Iannotti A, Giovanni Mortara A, Philip Deline B
Global and Planetary Change 56 (2007) 123–136 www.elsevier.com/locate/gloplacha Recent debris flow occurrences associated with glaciers in the Alps ⁎ Marta Chiarle a, , Sara Iannotti a, Giovanni Mortara a, Philip Deline b a CNR‐IRPI, Strada delle Cacce, 73–10135 Torino, Italy b Laboratoire EDYTEM, CNRS‐Université de Savoie, 73376 Le Bouget‐du‐Lac, France Received 12 August 2005; accepted 21 July 2006 Available online 9 January 2007 Abstract Debris flows from glacier forefields, triggered by heavy rain or glacial outbursts, or damming of streams by ice avalanches, pose hazards in Alpine valleys (e.g. the south side of Mount Blanc). Glacier‐related debris flows are, in part, a consequence of general glacier retreat and the corresponding exposure of large quantities of unconsolidated, unvegetated, and sometimes ice‐cored glacial sediments. This paper documents glacier‐related debris flows at 17 sites in the Italian, French, and Swiss Alps, with a focus on the Italian northwest sector. For each case data are provided which describe the glacier and the instability. Three types of events have been recognized, based on antecedent meteorological conditions. Type 1 (9 documented debris flows) is triggered by intense and prolonged rainfall, causing water saturation of sediments and consequent failure of large sediment volumes (up to 800000 m3). Type 2 (2 debris flows) is triggered by short rainstorms which may destabilize the glacier drainage system, with debris flow volumes up to 100000 m3. Type 3 (6 debris flows) occurs during dry weather by glacial lake outbursts or ground/buried ice melting, with debris flow volumes up to 150000 m3. -
Brochure on How to Act in Alpine Terrain
FORS MONTENEGRO FORSMONTENEGRO Foundation for the Development Fondacija za razvoj sjevera of Northern Montenegro Crne Gore Foundation for the Development of Northern Montenegro The project is funded by the European Union DIRECT BROCHURE ON HOW TO ACT IN ALPINE TERRAIN From a geographical standpoint, mountains are natural THE MOUNTAINS OF MONTENEGRO We hope that this brochure will be useful, that it will elevations of the earth’s surface attaining an altitude contribute to greater safety during stay in Montenegrin greater than 500 m. Mountains are formed and shaped by mountains, and that the tourists-hikers who visit our tectonic processes that could be classified as endogenic Montenegro is a South European and a Mediterranean mountains will carry away with them a most pleasant or internal (seismic an volcanic activity) or exogenic or country, mountainous and coastal at the same time, impression of their wild and breathtaking beauty. external (fluvial erosion – wearing away of soil by moving unique for its beauty, and one of the richest countries water, denudation – wearing down and stripping of the in Europe in terms of natural resources. e mountains rocks due to temperature swings, atmospheric influences, of Montenegro belong to the Dinaric Mountain Range. and expansion of plant roots, erosion – mechanical e prominent massifs are Orjen, Lovćen and Rumija disintegration of rocks, etc.). in the south, and Maglić, Durmitor, Vojnik, Morača Mountains, Komovi, Prokletije in the continental region, The tallest mountain ranges in the world are: The with an average elevation of the mountain peaks of over Himalayas with the highest peak in the world Mount 2,000 above sea level. -
Hotel Address City E-‐Mail Web Country Admiral Zermatt Info@Hotel
Hotel Address City e-mail web Country Admiral Zermatt [email protected] Switzerland Albana Real Zermatt [email protected] http://www.hotelalbanareal.com/en/ Switzerland Alex Zermatt [email protected] http://www.hotelalexzermatt.com Switzerland Allalin Zermatt [email protected] http://www.hotel-allalin.ch/ Switzerland Alpen Resort Best Western Zermatt [email protected] http://www.alpenresort.com/index_en.html Switzerland Alpenblick Zermatt [email protected] http://www.alpenblick-zermatt.ch/ Switzerland Alpenhof Zermatt [email protected] http://www.alpenhofhotel.ch Switzerland Alphubel 2 min from station, side lane Zermatt [email protected] http://www.zermatt.net/alphubel/ Switzerland Alpina Zermatt [email protected] http://www.alpina-zermatt.ch Switzerland Aristella Zermatt [email protected] http://www.aristella-zermatt.ch/ Switzerland Astoria Zermatt [email protected] http://www.astoria-zermatt.ch/home.html Switzerland Bella Vista Hotel Zermatt [email protected] http://bellavista-zermatt.ch/en Switzerland BELLERIVE Superior Zermatt [email protected] http://www.bellerive-zermatt.ch Switzerland Bijou Zermatt [email protected] http://www.hotel-bijou.ch/index%28e%29.htm Switzerland Bristol halfboard Zermatt [email protected] http://www.hotel-bristol.ch/ Switzerland Butterfly dinner 15 extra Zermatt [email protected] http://www.hotel-butterfly.com/ Switzerland Coeur des Alpes Zermatt [email protected] http://www.coeurdesalpes.ch Switzerland Derby -
Articles, Only Recently
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 2085–2106, 2016 www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/16/2085/2016/ doi:10.5194/nhess-16-2085-2016 © Author(s) 2016. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Climate anomalies associated with the occurrence of rockfalls at high-elevation in the Italian Alps Roberta Paranunzio1, Francesco Laio1, Marta Chiarle2, Guido Nigrelli2, and Fausto Guzzetti3 1Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy 2Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR IRPI), Torino, Italy 3Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR IRPI), Perugia, Italy Correspondence to: Roberta Paranunzio ([email protected]) Received: 29 March 2016 – Published in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.: 4 April 2016 Revised: 13 July 2016 – Accepted: 22 August 2016 – Published: 12 September 2016 Abstract. Climate change is seriously affecting the 1 Introduction cryosphere in terms, for example, of permafrost thaw, al- teration of rain=snow ratio, and glacier shrinkage. There is concern about the increasing number of rockfalls at high el- The recent decades have seen a pronounced warming in evation in the last decades. Nevertheless, the exact role of global climate, primarily at high elevations and high latitudes climate parameters in slope instability at high elevation has (Schär et al., 2004). Temperature across European Alps has ◦ not been fully explored yet. In this paper, we investigate 41 increased of about 1.4 K per century over the period 1906– rockfalls listed in different sources (newspapers, technical re- 2005, which is more than double the global average (Brunetti ports, and CNR IRPI archive) in the elevation range 1500– et al., 2009) and further increases are expected according to 4200 m a.s.l. -
Mountain Permafrost and Recent Alpine Rock-Fall Events: a GIS-Based Approach to Determine Critical Factors
Permafrost, Phillips, Springman & Arenson (eds) © 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, ISBN 90 5809 582 7 Mountain permafrost and recent Alpine rock-fall events: a GIS-based approach to determine critical factors J. Noetzli, M. Hoelzle & W. Haeberli Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics Group, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland ABSTRACT: Glacier retreat and permafrost changes, as related to climate change, are supposed to affect sta- bility conditions of steep rock walls in cold mountain ranges. Several rock-fall events, which have occurred in the European Alps during the 20th century, are possibly related to warm permafrost. This study undertakes a system- atic parameterization of rock-fall events in order to increase information about thermal and topographic condi- tions under which rock instabilities develop in areas of mountain permafrost. Thermal conditions of historically documented starting zones are parameterized by applying either empirical rules or GIS-based spatial models; slope is derived from DTMs. Despite the relatively small number of events documented so far (around 20), the first results presented clearly indicate that the factor permafrost must be considered in connection with rock-falls from high mountain slopes. 1 INTRODUCTION known rock-fall events in the Alps. In a first step, his- torically documented starting zones are investigated. A number of periglacial rock-fall events have occurred in the European Alps during the 20th century such as the Brenva Glacier rock avalanches of 1920 and 1997 2 HISTORICAL ROCK-FALL EVENTS in the Aosta Valley or the recent instability in the Monte Rosa east wall in the Anzasca Valley, both in So far, twenty rock-fall events or slope instabilities the Italian Alps. -
Cold Firn in the Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa Areas, European Alps: Spatial
Annals of Glaciology 35 2002 # InternationalGlaciological Society Cold firn in theMont Blanc and MonteRosa areas,European Alps: spatial distribution and statisticalmodels Stephan SUTER,* Martin HOELZLEÀ Versuchsanstalt fu rWasserbau,Hydrologie und Glaziologie,Eidgeno ssischeTechnische Hochschule,ETH-Zentrum,CH-8092 Zu rich,Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT.Near-surface firntemperatures weremeasured in22steam-drilled bore- holesin the summit regionof Mont Blanc(F ranceand I taly)at 3800^4800 m a.s.l.in June 1998and in 3 1boreholesin the Monte Rosaarea (Italy and Switzerland )at3900 ^ 4500m a.s.l.in May^July1 999.Borehole temperatures were loggedto 22 m depth.The temperatures at1 8mdepthranged between temperate conditionsand approximately ^15³C. In a small altitudeband, the observeddistribution pattern suggests astronginflu- ence ofshortwaveradiation and turbulent heatexchange (being generally more effective atwind-exposed sites) .Thesetwo energy fluxes mainly determine the melt-energy input intothe snowand firn during summer and,thereby ,the measured near-surfacetempera- tures. Astatistical analysisof the measured firntemperatures revealedaltitude-dependent firntemperature gradientsof ^1.48and of ^2.36³ C (100m) ^1 forthe Mont Blancand Monte Rosaareas, respectively .Thehigh lapse rates, ascomparedto the air-temperature lapserate, arethe result ofenglaciallatent-heat contribution.The parameters elevation, potentialdirect solarradiation, slope and accumulation explain 480%of the variation ofthe meanannual firn temperatures.