Finsteraarhorn Hut

The Finsteraarhornhütte is a refuge of the Swiss Alpine Club in the Bernese Alps ( Switzerland ).

Location and operation

The cottage stands on the steep western flank of the Finsteraarhorn to 3048 m about 100 m above the Fieschergletscher. The present building was built in a modern wood-steel style in 2003, the old cottage now serves as a winter room with space for 10 people. She stands a few meters below the new hut.

The lodge is run by the Oberhasli section of the Swiss Alpine Club and has a warden with short breaks from March to September. It has room for 106 people. In addition, a year-round accessible Winter storage is available.

Boarding and tours

The cottage is comparatively secluded Alpine standards and can be reached only via glacier tours. The shortest ascent is done the Jungfraujoch in a southerly direction over the Jungfraufirn that Grünhornlücke and Fieschergletscher and takes about 6-7 h before the shortest ascent was made from Fiesch, about Fieschertal and Fieschergletscher to the hut. Because the glaciers retreated but the Fieschergletscher is zerschrundener than before and provides va in the little snow late in some places an insurmountable obstacle, which makes the ascent and descent considerably more dangerous and longer. For this route you need min. 8-9 hours. An alternative ascent from Fiesch consists of fiescheralp (accessible by cable car to Eggishorn ) made up to Gletscherstube Märjelen and from there over the Aletsch Glacier to the Konkordiaplatz where the Concordia hut is located. Here, the path associated with the Jungfraujoch and continues across the Grünhornlücke. Another path leads from the Oberaarjochhütte on Oberaarjoch down on the Studer glacier to its union with the Fieschergletscher and this, in turn, climbing up to the hut. Committed Rare is the transition from the Mönchsjochhütte over the saddle between upper and rear Fiescherhorn.

Due to its central location in the eastern Bernese Alps many mountains in the area are available, as mountain shall the Finstaarhorn. In addition, include, without limitation Tours to the three major Fiescherhörner Fiescherhorn, rear Fiescherhorn and small Fiescherhorn ( called ox ) and the Gross When horn Fiescher fork horn that Studerhorn and Agassizhorn possible.

Maps

• Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo: Topographic Map 1:25,000, sheet 1249 Finstaarhorn. , 2007.