Gross Wannenhorn

The Gross When horn is a 3'905, 9 m above sea level. M. high mountain in the Bernese Alps. It is located in the Swiss canton of Valais. The summit offers a magnificent view of the northern Bernese four thousand and to the south of the Rhone valley of the Valais Alps.

Geography and description

He is the highest peak of the so-called Valais Fiescherhörner, not to be confused with the northern four-thousand background and large Fiescherhorn. This group is, bordered to the south side on all sides by glaciers. Runs east arc of the Fieschergletscher, west of the Great Aletsch Glacier. To the northwest lies the Konkordiaplatz. To the north, the Group had the Grünhornlücke from large green horn is disconnected.

The Gross When Horn consists of a Twin Peaks, a rocky north peak and a flatter south summit. The east side of the mountain is heavily glaciated, it falls to the west with steep rock walls partially interrupted by glacier fields, the Great Aletsch Glacier from. To the south, a ridge above the saddle horn When ( 3'669 m above sea level. M. ) leads to the with 3,707 meters above sea level. M. somewhat lower small When Horn. Direct northern neighbor is 3,854 m above sea level. M. Schoenbuehl high horn.

Summit routes

The easiest exit successfully from the east via the northeast face and the East Ridge. The starting point is the Finsteraarhornhütte ( 3'048 m above sea level. M. ). From this cross the Fieschergletscher and rises above a partially very spaltige glacial basin, later on firn to the summit. In winter and spring this route is a very popular and highly frequented ski tour. The difficulty is rated at WS after the SAC - mountain and high- scale tour.

The northwest ridge from Schonbul Horn ago, is the most difficult section of the entire north-south exceeded the Valais Fiescherhörner (ZS ). As descent route after exceeding itself offers the southeast ridge (ZS ​​). The route takes in the southern horn saddle point and from that point on the little horn glaciers and scree slopes below the Aletsch Glacier.

First ascent

The first ascent of the Grand When Horn took place on August 6, 1864 by Gottlieb Studer and Rudolf Lindt with Kaspar Blatter and Peter Sulzer over the east. With its descent to the west, this was also the first East-West exceeded the mountain. The northwest ridge was first climbed in August 1922, the south-east in 1907 in descent and ascent in 1919.