After our lightweight brekkie of ginger cake we set off at 6am hoping most of the climbers would be ahead of us and we could travel fast and overtake where we needed to. We were going really well until the steeper sections of rope ladders and chains that meant a build up of traffic. I had a Scottish hot aches experience waiting for pitches to come free.
We summitted at 10:30 and took tonnes of great photos before I decided to drop the camera down the face while trying to clip it back onto my harness. Nightmare!!! Up the Matterhorn with amazing scenery all around and my beloved pictures on the glacier below.
The descent of the Hornli was horrific, easier to overtake thank god but the crampon and rope skills high up were not good, many parties very unsafe. So we skirted around them as best we could to get out of there before accidents started to happen. The Hornli hutte seemed so far away and it took us a lot of hard work and rock scrambling to get down and back out to the ski lift.
After a quick beer in Zermatt we returned to find a FULL campsite but still managed to blag a space. What a day! Amazing mountain, shame everyone else thinks so too!!
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Another camera bites the dust!!
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