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There are some walks around the head of the Mattertal that I had hoped to repeat to rephotograph in the vastly changed conditions of the last couple of decades, but after COVID and with travel so much more difficult, I don't think that is going to happen. So here they are:-
The Stockhorn - August 2009 Stockhorn mapIf you take the Gornergrat railway to it's terminus, you can continue up the rocky ridge to Hohtali (ski installations) and then on over Rote Nase (top of trifti) to the 3405m Stockhorn (3532m according to wiki et al) - at the time an Isolated rock outcrop amongst the snow. There is a little very easy sccrambling, and I seem to remember it took me 2-3 hours. Donna accompanied me as far as Hohtali and then returned.
Here are the photos.
At Hohtali - Dent Blanche, Ober Gabelhorn, Rothorn and WeisshornMatterhornMonte Rosa and the LyskammZoomed -Dent BlancheTaschhorn and Alphubel from somewhere on the ridgeRimpfischhorn and Strahlhorn from the same pointAnd from the Summit:Looking back down the ridgeA wider view with the Gornergletcher on the LMonte RosaThe LyskamRimpfischhorn and Strahlhorn The Gornergletcher June 2009If you take the lift out of Zermatt to Furri and head off up to the Left you come to the outlet from the Gornergletcher (that once stretched nearly into the vilage
It flows out a gorge between two rock pillars and In June as the winter snow melts, the stream is a wild torrent
Looking up into the gorge - a wild torrentLooking down from around the same pointThere is a hydroelectric dam there nowI climbed up the rocks on the left so that I could see the glacier itself and took a few more pics
looking up towards the Lyskam: 2008 was a very hot year and the glacier retreated around 380m - the average is about 95.Dent Blanche, Ober Gabelhorn and Zinal RothornZoomed view of the Dent BlancheI found this view from 2004 on the webAnd this one from 2015 - but nothing more recent 3 The Findeln glacier 2019In 2003 after climbing the Strahlhorn Klaus and I walked down the Findeln glacier, climbed easily up the lateral moraine and returned to Fluealp that we'd left about 7 hours earlier
On the glacierFluealp - the Adlerhorn behindI was back in 2018. How things had changed
around the same place in summer 2018In 2019 I returned again with Alec from Vancouver: we took the lift to Blauhurd, descended to Fluealp for Lunch and then continued down to Zermatt by the little vilage of Findeln - stopping for a beer of course.
These are the photos
Wow Some of the localsApproaching Findeln4 The gorgeThe Gorner bach descends from Furri to Zermatt by a narrow gorge through which runs a via ferrata with bridges zipwires etc. I've done it a couple of times. Here are the (rather dark) photos.
At the bottom you join an old Victorian wooden structure than tourrists could ascend. You can see part of it (top Left)l in the last photo
ontinued in part 2
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