| jan712. 07. 2014 14:13:41 |
I have a quiet wish to head to Zermatt during my summer vacation (presumably second half of August) and first wander a bit on trekking paths around Zermatt, do some ascents on nearby easier accessible three-thousanders, and finally Breithorn tempts me. I have some experience with winter ascents in our mountains, of course not with glaciers.
I'm wondering if it's safe to attempt a solo "ascent" on Breithorn?
I already browsed the net a bit and the price for a guide, for one participant, if you're in a group (random) of 3-6 people, is around 150 Chf. Price isn't low, but that could somehow work, however it bothers me to ascend in a group. If e.g. we found three friends, then it's somehow acceptable to me, otherwise not. The vast majority of ascents in our mountains I did solo, also I don't have some mountain companion who would go with me to the mountains, somehow I'm used to always going alone.
That the starting point for the ascent is the upper station of the gondola "Klein Matterhorn" (for "modest" 99 Chf), I'm somehow digesting, but it seems to me that I'm capable of doing such an ascent solo, as long as there aren't too many objective dangers (glacier crevasses). Otherwise, it's like you can always turn back anytime if you judge you're not up to it, true though that once you're so far from home and so close to the goal, it might be hard to stay objective.
On the net I find various reports and accounts of ascents on Breithorn, from solo ones where they openly mock the guiding and clients on the rope, to those accounts that you simply can't go there alone, without protection.
So, if any of you has been there, your opinion: is it suitable to go solo on Breithorn or is walking on the glacier under Breithorn simply too dangerous and is a rope team necessary?
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