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Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Saule © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Beta block and 2 climber on Elementartelchen © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Metro © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Flaying Circus © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - © mario sertori
ICE – BREITWANGFLUE
Icefalls conditions
March 10, 2011
Great season this year for the iceclimbing in Breitwangflue, the wall on the “upper floors” of Kandersteg !
Suspended above the Kanderstal, you can see it from the road near Mitholz. The waterfalls of this harsh place, among the most attractive and challenging of Switzerland, are still in very good condition and, despite requiring a very high level, are frequently climbed
Among the most desirable (and repeated) is Crack Baby (Bongard and Gruber 1993): beautiful and breathtaking, allows a fast descent thanks to belays already in place.
But other lines of the wall are regularly attended: among all, stands for the originality Metro that runs into a big hole in the rock , in the bowels of the mountain through a sort of vertical tunnel of one hundred meters sprinkled by ice.
Sucked into the glow of light, luckily you reach again the open air, to be confronted with a generous crystal free standing, the last gift of the two genius of this place. Anthamatten brothers, the discoverers of this speleo-ice-trip
Iceclimbers with bionic limbs need to prove Flying Circus, an overhanging masterpiece without a single bolt, which was first ascended in 1998 by Robert Jasper; just beside, and more affordable, a large pillar, which was first climbed by Klaus Fengler with Will Gadd in 2005 and named Saule, without too much imagination.
Apart from the difficulty, a price to pay to enjoy these wonders is the strenuous approach that, since the cable-car no longer works, is on foot by Mitholz, taking a dirt road that starts just above the avalanche tunnel’s entrance (from the south) of the village and leads to Giesenen (at the crossroads keep to the right).
There are about 900 meters uphill for 2 hours of walking. The track is there but the snow, under the wall, is inconsistent, recommended snowshoes.
Among the most desirable (and repeated) is Crack Baby (Bongard and Gruber 1993): beautiful and breathtaking, allows a fast descent thanks to belays already in place.
But other lines of the wall are regularly attended: among all, stands for the originality Metro that runs into a big hole in the rock , in the bowels of the mountain through a sort of vertical tunnel of one hundred meters sprinkled by ice.
Sucked into the glow of light, luckily you reach again the open air, to be confronted with a generous crystal free standing, the last gift of the two genius of this place. Anthamatten brothers, the discoverers of this speleo-ice-trip
Iceclimbers with bionic limbs need to prove Flying Circus, an overhanging masterpiece without a single bolt, which was first ascended in 1998 by Robert Jasper; just beside, and more affordable, a large pillar, which was first climbed by Klaus Fengler with Will Gadd in 2005 and named Saule, without too much imagination.
Apart from the difficulty, a price to pay to enjoy these wonders is the strenuous approach that, since the cable-car no longer works, is on foot by Mitholz, taking a dirt road that starts just above the avalanche tunnel’s entrance (from the south) of the village and leads to Giesenen (at the crossroads keep to the right).
There are about 900 meters uphill for 2 hours of walking. The track is there but the snow, under the wall, is inconsistent, recommended snowshoes.
Topo Alpine Ice
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Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue © mario sertori
Breitwangflue Crack Baby © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Beta block and 2 climber on Elementartelchen © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - 1 Metro - 2 Flying Circus - 3 Saule © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Metro, entry © mario sertori
Breitwangflue - Saule © mario sertori
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