Alpine ridges do-able from cable cars?

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 alps_p 13 Aug 2022

Hi - any recommendations of AD/D graded ridges that can be done from a cable car? (i.e. up in the first lift, down in the last one)

I just really dislike huts with dorm rooms for 12 or 16 people.
 

Things like Breithorn traverse, Rochefort Arete, Cosmiques Arete, etc…

thanks

 MG 13 Aug 2022
In reply to alps_p:

Perhaps note that increasingly Swiss and Italian huts have smaller rooms and individual bunks.

Otherwise the obvious lifts are Kleines Matterhorn, Saas, Chamonix and Punta Hellbrunner.

 JLS 13 Aug 2022
In reply to alps_p:

I never done it, always fancied Egginer - Mittaghorn traverse at Saas-Fee.

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/egginer-4112/south-southwest_ridge...

 mcawle 13 Aug 2022
In reply to alps_p:

Or bivi..,

 RobAJones 13 Aug 2022
In reply to JLS:

> I never done it, always fancied Egginer - Mittaghorn traverse at Saas-Fee.

I've done it a couple times,  but it's a bit loose for my taste.  Now I preferred to go up the via ferrata to Mittaghorn and then out to the Egginer and back the same way.

The traverse of the Jegihorn is another option in that area.

Edit I meant Jegigrat although a route on the Jegihorn first would be possible 

Post edited at 17:10
 philipjardine 14 Aug 2022
In reply to alps_p:

well its a train not a lift but you can do the Mittelegi on the Eiger off the first train.  Its in perfect condition at the moment

 MG 14 Aug 2022
In reply to philipjardine:

From the tunnels at Eismeer? Is access that way still OK? I remember them well from  1998!

 kendogcatchy 16 Aug 2022
In reply to MG:

Yep. Did it 2 weeks ago. V dry though

 robert7249 04 Sep 2022
In reply to kendogcatchy:

How did you go about getting a ticket to Eismeer? Do you have to buy a ticket to the top? Then another ticket from the top down after completing the ridge traverse? Been hunting the web all morning trying to find information on this. 

cheers 

rob

In reply to robert7249:

If memory serves my correctly you buy a single from Grindlewald to Eismeer. And a single from Jungfraujoch to Grindlewald.

Reassuringly expensive. 

 Suncream 04 Sep 2022
In reply to robert7249:

If you go to the desk they understand and sell you what you need. No need to get it in advance 

 robert7249 05 Sep 2022
In reply to alps_p:

Thanks both. 
 

Rob 


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