Haven’t watched yet but sooooo excited! Sub’d after watching your video of that alpine route on long’s peak (I hiked the keyhole route). This is my dream mountain to climb! My hands are sweaty just typing this haha. I leave in a week to climb mt. Whitney and I’m going to consider it prep for the Matterhorn. Hopefully within the next 2 years! 🤙🤙
Thanks for your kind words, I hope you enjoy the footage I got, it should hopefully inform your attempt. It's an incredible climb, some of the most dramatic exposure and best views of any I've done, and the summit is a trip. If you go with a guide, know that the European guides set a fast pace on this mountain so it is more challenging than other "14ers" because of how fast teams have to move, and you want plenty in the tank for the intense downclimbing. Training for a slightly faster pace is recommended. Well worth any effort! Enjoy Whitney!
@@ledged_up that footage was amazing! Nice work hoofing it up there! It doesn’t seem too technical but only in a few places. I will most definitely be using a guide like you did! I do enjoy sport and trad climbing and the exposure looks great, but I agree, the pace looks very fast. I’m from PA and I’m going to do Whitney broken up into 2-3 days. So I’ll need lots of conditioning for that trip! I saved your guides info, perhaps I’ll get in contact with him at some point soon. Great job again and thanks for sharing your experience!
There are no words - it's just incredibly beautiful! 😍😍😍 It must have been very difficult! It was cold on the top? (how many degrees was?) In general, how much mountaineering do you need to do to climb the Matterhorn? How much knowledge do you need?
In general temps were mild during our climb, I was surprised by how warm it was. It was probably around 1° C near the top. You could learn the skills needed for Matterhorn in a few preparatory climbs; I know some guides will take clients after 2-3 prep and instructional climbs on smaller peaks. Definitely need good crampon technique on steep slopes, ice axe self arrest, some basic knowledge of rope management and anchor tie in, rappelling, etc. Plus the fitness to climb a very steep 1200m (4000ft) in under 4 hours, probably 3.5hrs by the pace set by most guides.
Thanks! The gloves I wore were "Hestra Ergo Grip Active Wool Terry". Excellent gloves, but honestly I could have taken them off at parts of the climb, it got warm enough the rock would have been easier to grip without them.
@@ledged_up thank you, I did the climb two weeks after you, got unlucky with the weather, and made it only to the Solvay. However I noticed my hands were getting really cold because I'd taken my gloves off at the beginning cause I got too warm and by the time I had them back on, my hands didn't warm up.
Best video of many I have watched on the Matterhorn.... was it a 1 on 1 guide on your climb?. His rope and belay management was a joy to watch! :-) Looks like you had to keep going at a good clip the entire way! I am sure the own climbing was challenging as you mention especially when you were a bit tired. Did you use an Insta 360 camera on a stick in your pack ? Nice climb and video, congrats. Bob
Thanks Bob, glad you enjoyed it. Yes most guides (maybe all?) for Matterhorn will only do it 1 to 1. I did use an Insta360 X4 on a stick on my pack. I had to keep it a little tighter (closer to my back) than I would like to avoid chances to accidentally cause rockfall on this route. Ideally it would be mounted a little farther away from my head, but had to keep it tight on this one.
I'd prefer less distortion too, unfortunately for this particular climb I had to mount the camera quite close to my head so I had to make the POV wider otherwise you'd mostly just see my helmet in the footage.
