Daily Archives: 10 July 2015

July 9th

Distance:  18,9 km
Time:  8 hours 30 minutes
Vertical distance: 530 m uphill, 2240 m downhill

Left the Bertol Hut at 5 a.m. and climbed up to the Tête Blanche with other groups doing Chamonix to Zermatt.  It had frozen that night and walking with crampons was a real pleasure.  So much so that we went on without stopping and were soon on the moraines of the Zmutt glacier below the Schönbiel Hut.  These were tedious but we emerged in the end onto paths leading to Zmutt and Zermatt, both of us quite footsore.  Dave took a train to Martigny to fetch his van from the Grand-St-Bernard tunnel entrance, while I had a pleasant afternoon and evening with Sally and Neil who had come up by train.

Night: Hotel Cima Garni, Zermatt