DOM SKI Ascent

04 Apr 2011

IanWells

Phil Jardine and I have our sights set on climbing the Dom (saas-fee/zermatt) in a couple of weeks - has anyone done it in on Skis and offer any advice - for example are the ropes on the steep part above the hut accessible at this time of year?. Any experience/advice would be really helpful. Thanks Ian Wells

24 Apr 2011

MikeHendry

Ian - there are several write-ups of previous ski ascents (e.g. Double Anniversary on the Dom, 1967, by Terry Hartley - I can let you have a copy if your library doesn't go back that far surprise, or in Vaucher's "100 Plus Belles Courses des Alpes Valaisannes") but I can't see any very recent write-ups, not even on skirando.ch, which is usually the best place for recent trip records.

Have you tried asking the Hüttenwart your specific question?

Best wishes,

Mike

26 Apr 2011

IanWells

Thanks Mike - in the end we took local advice which was that it was difficult if the fixed line was under snow and best left to summer  - so we went up the allalinhorn and alphubel instead - both 4000+ but much more modest outings. For reference the best info i can find on the web is on the Dom Hutte site http://www.domhuette.ch/touren/dom/index.html.