With clean clothes, a new rope and feeling more acclimatised, we began the climb out of Saas Fee to our base for the next few days - the Britannia Hut.
The purists amongst you will appreciate the fact that we did not use either cable car to access the hut. Instead we climbed through the forest to Plattjen (2570m) and snaked around the East sides of Mittaghorn and Egginer to the final ascent over moraine and Chessjen Glacier to 3030m.
The Britannia Hut holds three times as many people as the Bordier Hut and is one of the busiest huts in Switzerland, despite being on the edge of the wilderness of the Allalin and Hohlaub Glaciers. The views towards the Strahlhorn and Rimpfischhorn are wonderful. From the hut, we could pick out West-North-West Flank on the Strahlhorn - our route for tomorrow...
The purists amongst you will appreciate the fact that we did not use either cable car to access the hut. Instead we climbed through the forest to Plattjen (2570m) and snaked around the East sides of Mittaghorn and Egginer to the final ascent over moraine and Chessjen Glacier to 3030m.
The Britannia Hut holds three times as many people as the Bordier Hut and is one of the busiest huts in Switzerland, despite being on the edge of the wilderness of the Allalin and Hohlaub Glaciers. The views towards the Strahlhorn and Rimpfischhorn are wonderful. From the hut, we could pick out West-North-West Flank on the Strahlhorn - our route for tomorrow...
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