Drying snow-soaked shoes in the hut's winter room, while snow is melting in the pot.
A hearty recovery snack of bread, cheese and tea, comforts after hours of trudging through snow and ice.
Rock cairns peaking out of the snow-covered flanks. Picture is taken shortly before the glacier crossing, which is deeply covered in snow with thick snow bridges over the crevasses that can hold our load.
The Tracuithut at 3'236 m is our night’s refuge before the 4AM-start summit day.
Snowshoes are required with abnormally deep snow for the Alpine June.
Securing knots for the two rope teams.
The rope team practising in front of the Turtmann hut. It’s drizzling.
We whisk out the map, planning tomorrow’s route.
A glacier crevasse, visible even on the snowed-up glacier. We pass around it, barely two metres from the edge.
Reaching the summit, we are greeted by a cloudy expanse of snow-covered peaks. The Weisshorn towers behind us at 4'505 m.
Drying snow-soaked shoes in the hut's winter room, while snow is melting in the pot.
A hearty recovery snack of bread, cheese and tea, comforts after hours of trudging through snow and ice.
Rock cairns peaking out of the snow-covered flanks. Picture is taken shortly before the glacier crossing, which is deeply covered in snow with thick snow bridges over the crevasses that can hold our load.
The Tracuithut at 3'236 m is our night’s refuge before the 4AM-start summit day.
Snowshoes are required with abnormally deep snow for the Alpine June.
Securing knots for the two rope teams.
The rope team practising in front of the Turtmann hut. It’s drizzling.
We whisk out the map, planning tomorrow’s route.
A glacier crevasse, visible even on the snowed-up glacier. We pass around it, barely two metres from the edge.
Reaching the summit, we are greeted by a cloudy expanse of snow-covered peaks. The Weisshorn towers behind us at 4'505 m.

Bishorn Summmit (4153 m)

For the Love of the Mountains
Bishorn Summit, Switzerland

Snow is melting in a pot above the crackling fire; the clouds stretch deep into the labyrinth of peaks. Why do these peaks beckon us so?

Perhaps it is in the way they challenge us, and in that challenge, reflect what it means to be truly alive. Slowly, I slice through bread with my Swiss Army knife. As the dark fades into the mountain flanks, I tuck into a sleeping bag only to awaken and wander into a landscape that never fails to leave me breathless. Beginning of June I went on my first mountaineering tour.

I’d like to share a slice of that world with you.