Tag Archives: Mittel Allalin

The Way Up and Down

Posted on Tue, 5 August, 2014 by LensScaper

Throwing caution to the wind we went as high as possible today (to Mittel Allalin) on the one and only fully dry day so far. Clouds still obscured some of the many summits but it was worth the trip and … Continue reading →

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The Allalinhorn re-visited

Posted on Thu, 1 August, 2013 by LensScaper

Last summer I climbed the Allalinhorn fifty years after my first ascent, and I wrote about it in My Golden Mountain. Yesterday I soloed it again – in total my eighth ascent. The mountain looks the same but each year … Continue reading →

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