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The Balfrin with an Oberland backdrop, from Ulrichshorn.<br><br>11am, 27/08/03<br><br>~ I had set off from near the Bordier hut early that morning with the idea of reaching the Nadelhorn, but a misdirection (since corrected) from the AC's <i>Valais East</i> and some severe glacier frustrations cost me too much time, and I got no further than Ulrichshorn, returning by way of consolation (and by way of avoiding that glacier) over Balfrin and Bigerhorn.<br><br>
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The Balfrin with an Oberland backdrop, from Ulrichshorn.

11am, 27/08/03

~ I had set off from near the Bordier hut early that morning with the idea of reaching the Nadelhorn, but a misdirection (since corrected) from the AC's Valais East and some severe glacier frustrations cost me too much time, and I got no further than Ulrichshorn, returning by way of consolation (and by way of avoiding that glacier) over Balfrin and Bigerhorn.

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  • The Balfrin with an Oberland backdrop, from Ulrichshorn.<br><br>11am, 27/08/03<br><br>~ I had set off from near the Bordier hut early that morning with the idea of reaching the Nadelhorn, but a misdirection (since corrected) from the AC's <i>Valais East</i> and some severe glacier frustrations cost me too much time, and I got no further than Ulrichshorn, returning by way of consolation (and by way of avoiding that glacier) over Balfrin and Bigerhorn.<br><br>
  • Ulrichshorn, named for Melchior Ulrich of Zurich who made the first ascent in 1848, has the unusual amenity of a park bench on its 3925m summit.<br /> <br /> This - and finding the bench occupied by a cheery local on his annual pilgrimage to the peak - made a bizarre culmination to the long and sometimes fraught progress up the Ried glacier from the Bordier.
  • Emerging from the permaclag round the Mischabel Hut, on the way to the Nadelhorn.<br /> <br /> 6.30am, 2/9/03
  • On to the Hohbalm Glacier beneath the Lenzspitze.<br /> <br /> 7am, 2/9/03
  • Beneath the Dreieselswand of the Lenzspitze.<br /> <br /> 7.30am, 2/9/03
  • Approaching the Windjoch, en route to the Nadelhorn.<br /> <br /> 8am, 2/9/03
  • Ulrichshorn from 3950m on the NE ridge of the Nadelhorn.<br /> <br /> 9am, 2/9/03
  • The disappointingly scrappy upper part of the Nadelhorn NE ridge.<br /> <br /> 9.30am, 2/9/03
  • View NNW from the Nadelhorn.<br /> <br /> 10am, 2/9/03
  • North face of the Dom, from the Nadelhorn.<br /> <br /> 10am, 2/9/03
  • SE from the Nadelhorn - Lenzspitze, Egginergrat, Stellihorn<br /> <br /> 10am, 2/9/03
  • Pizzo Colombe, 2545m, from the north.<br /> <br /> 11am, 28/08/02<br /> <br /> ~ The Stac Pollaidh of the Ticino.
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