Lyskamm

Liskamm of the Dufour Peak

The Liskamm (often Lyskamm ) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps east of the Matterhorn, west of the Monte Rosa group. The huge, several kilometers long comb has its highest points in the East ( 4,527 m ) and in the lower western peak ( 4,480 m ), the distance between the two peaks is alone for over a kilometer. The summit is crowned by the almost 1,000 m high, eisgepanzerte northeast wall, the showpiece of the Gornergrat ( 3110 m), the terminus of the Gornergrat Bahn.

South-facing towers the summit ridge on a up to 500 m high rock slope above the Lisgletscher which reaches down into the valley of Gressoney heavily torn far.

The first ascent was on August 19, 1861 by William Edward Hall, JF Hardy, J. A. Hudson, C. H. Pilkington, A. C. Ramsay, T. Rennison, F. Sibson and R. M. Stephenson made ​​under the leadership of Franz Josef Lochmatter, Jean -Pierre Cachat, Mr. Karl, Stefan Zumtaugwald, Peter Perren and the winner Josef -Marie Perren.

The normal increases via the ridges:

• From Lisjoch ( 4,151 m) over the East Ridge to the east summit
• Along the southern ridge to the east summit
• From Felikjoch ( 4,063 m ) via the southwest ridge to the west summit and on over the long ridge to the east summit

These increases over the ridges are technically not very difficult, but rather long and dangerous, since the ridge is often heavily überwechtet. Many climbers are here already come through Wechtenbruch killed, what has the Liskamm the nickname " man-eater " introduced.

1921 Lyskamm became a film set, as Arnold Fanck his first mountain film turned in the battle with the mountains with Hannes Schneider and Ilse Rohde. Sepp Allgeier and Fanck himself stood behind the camera. Paul Hindemith wrote music for this ( silent ) film - under the pseudonym Paul Merano.