Needle ridge
As Nadelgrat is classic of the needle Horn ( 4327 m above sea level. M. ) northwestward to Galenjoch sagging Abschlussgrat the Mischabelkette in the Valais Alps referred. From the Nadelhorn, the Stecknadelhorn ( 4241 m ), the Hohberghorn ( 4219 m above sea level ) and the Dürrenhorn ( 4035 m ) follow . The ridge to the Lenzspitze ( 4294 m ) southeast of the Nadelhorn is sometimes included in the Nadelgrat, but the Dürrenhorn is often left out during an ascent and descended directly from the Dürrenjoch (Dirrujoch, 3912 m , formerly known as Hohbergjoch) via the Windjoch.
Crossing the entire Nadelgrat is one of the most prestigious ridge tours in the Alps, not least because you are almost constantly above the four-thousand-meter limit.
A rope team led by Christian Klucker climbed from the Hohberghorn to the Lenzspitze in 1892 and descended from there to the Domhütte . Two years later, Alexander Burgener and Moriz von Kuffner crossed the Nadelgrat from Lenzjoch to Dürrenhorn. In June 1916, Adrian Mazlam and Joseph Knubel were the first to complete the full traverse from the southeast, including the Lenzspitze and the northwestern Galengrat. In the opposite direction, from the Dürrenhorn to the Nadelhorn, the ridge was crossed for the first time in October 1927, also by Joseph Knubel, this time accompanied by the cartographer Marcel Kurz .
literature
- Helmut Dummler and Willi P. Burkhardt: Four thousand meter peaks in the Alps . Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7633-7427-2
- Richard Goedeke : 4000s . J. Berg bei Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-3401-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Michel Vaucher: Valais Alps . The 100 most beautiful tours. 2nd updated and revised edition. Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2124-3 , p. 156 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 6 ′ 43 " N , 7 ° 51 ′ 18" E ; CH1903: 632200 / 106800