After having climbed Breithorn and Pollux with my old classmate Tomas Ericsson the previous week, my regular climbing partner at the time, Anders Grawin came to Cervinia. Our plan was to try Liongrat, a.k.a. the Italian Ridge on the Matterhorn. First Anders needed acclimatization. We did the same way as Tomas and I hade done it the previous week, by climbing Breithorn 4,164 m. After that we headed up Liongrat… Everything went well until I suddenly got sick halfway up to the Carell hut. I almost fainted! And after that, the stomach went really bad… When we finally reached the Carell hut we decided it was enough. The next day we descended back to Cervinia ;-( It turned out that I probably had gotten some sort of stomach bug at the hotel since when we got back, half the staff was home from work, sick with this bug…
After failing on the Matterhorn, we felt the need for a “bonus” summit and headed for Castor. After a night in Rifugio Guide del Cervino, we made a fast hike to Castor and summited early in the morning.
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- Anders arrived to Cervinia
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- Mt. Cervino a.k.a. Matterhorn from Cervinia
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- Anders acclimatizon day, a climb of Breithorn
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- On the summit ridge
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- Anders on Breithorn
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- Anders on top!
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- On the summit of Breithorn, my third visit here
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- Before heading up Matterhorn, we asked for the conditions on Liongrat at the guide station in Cervinia
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- Matterhorn from Breithorn
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- Matterhorn
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- Our route, Liongrat (Italian Ridge)
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- On our way…
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- This dog called Dante followed us all way from the village to the Carell Cross
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- Climbing starts
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- Cervinia getting smaller
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- Anders near Col de Leone
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- Cervinia
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- Loose rock
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- Delicate climbing
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- Looking interesting
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- View above Col de Leone
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- “Whymper’s Chimney” That’s no longer a “chimney” since it fell down. Anders took a quite long fall here while leading
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- Finally made it to the carell hut
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- Inside the Carell hut
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- Viev from the Carell hut
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- Carell hut
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- Carell hut
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- No comment ;-(
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- Anders Grawin
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- Starting to descend
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- Looking down towards Col de Leone
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- Descending…
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- Descending…
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- Dent d’Hérens
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- The route follow traverses the scree below and is quite exposed to rockfall
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- Nice “Matterhorn” blisters 😉
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- Hello!!
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- The Mont Blanc massif
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- Leaving Rifugio Guide del Cervino to climb Castor
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- On the way up Castor
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- Anders on the slopes of Castor
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- The last meters up to the summit of Castor. We had a windy day, so better keep the balance!
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- Ridges leading to the summit of Castor
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- Castor
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- Anders on the summit of Castor, 4,228 m
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- Per on the summit of Castor, 4,228 m
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- Pollux seen from Castor
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- Some cabins are harder to reach than others 🙂
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- Rockfall from Pollux on the trail to Castor
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- Heading home from Castor
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- Anders’s happy after our “bonus” climb of Castor!
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- On the way back to Cervinia. Really nice surroundings!
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