Lenzspitze

Lenzspitze with east-northeast ridge and north-east wall of the east, from the black horn

The Lenzspitze ( formerly called Südlenz ) is at an altitude of 4'294 m above sea level. M. a four-thousand in the Mischabelgruppe in the Valais Alps.

The first ascent was made in 1870 by Clinton Thomas Dent with his guides Alexander Burgener and Franz on today no longer committed way through the northeast flank of the needle yoke and on the northwest ridge to the summit.

The Northeast increase celebrated for the first time on August 3, 1882 Briton William Woodman Graham with the leaders Theodor Andes mats and Ambros Supersaxo ( IV, III job, otherwise II, AD), now a usual increase of the Mischabelhütte. One is the south ridge of the Domhütte about the Lenzjoch (II).

The Lenzspitze is the starting point or end point of committing the entire Nadelgrat, its northwest ridge (III ) gives the first piece to Nadelhorn.

However, the showpiece of the Lenzspitze is the northeast face, an ice wall with a uniform inclination of 50-55 °. It was with the leaders Oskar and Othmar Supersaxo first climbed on July 7, 1911 by Dietrich von Bethmann Hollweg by step cutting and received whether the drudgery known as the " Three donkeys wall ".