~ From Geneva drive along the A1 up to Losanne, then take the A9 up to Visp. Refuges of the Group could be reached with lift-ways from Randa (on the road to Zermatt) and Zermatt, like: Gasenried, Randa Alpin, Taschalp.Īlso the Saas Valley is easy to reach, like Mattertal Valley you’ve to move up to Visp then Stalden where the Saas Valley divides itself Mattertal Valley. In Visp is suggested to leave the own car and take the cable-train up to Zermatt, or as arrived to Visp drive in the Valley up to Tasch (the last car allowed point) then take the train. ~ However, if you’re moving from Italy, as arrived to Aosta (see Monte Rosa Group or Monte Bianco di Courmayeur pages) drive to north by the E27 – S27 road up to Martigny, where take the A9 up to Visp. ~ From Bern take the A12 up to Montreaux, on the Geneva Lake, then the A9 up to Visp. The Mattertal Valley is easy to reach from any places of Switzerland and Italy too. If any Sper having "experienced" the Mischabel wishes to assume responsiblity for this plaease let me know. Note: desainme (Mark) having maintained this page and that of the Lenzspitze for five years, does not pretend to having been to these mounains but has attempted to maintain the page by incorporating the messages of those who have. Its name could be come from a dialect term for “dome” or “cathedral” but someone says that the name Dom comes from the name Domherr (German term near “priest”) Berchtold, the first man to measure the heights of the Mischabel. The W side is icy, held between the W and NW ridges, and covered by the Festigletscher. The N side is completely icy, covered by the Hohberggletscher, and here the Normal route runs. The SW side is also icy, covered by the Kingletscher. The most important one is the E wall, impressive, steep and icy (it is covered by the Feegletscher= Fee Glacier), continues from the Allalinhorn to the Lenzspitze, above the village of Saas Fee The system of ridges all around the Dom’s summit creates four main sides for this mountain: The other two, W and NW run almost parallel from the summit ridge, creating three areas on the W side of the Dom on the NW ridge there is the Festijoch a large saddle opened on the Festigletscher (at S) and the Hohberggletscher (at N). Stahlhorn Group, covered by the large Feegletscher on the NNE just under the Lenzspitze southern side there is the Lenzjoch, while on the S ridge there’s the Domjoch (the pass between Dom and Taschhorn): both of these passes are narrow and difficult to get over. The two main ridges are the NNE and the S, almost lined-up these ridges links Dom to the Lenzspitze – (toward N), and to the Taschhorn up to the Alphubel and the Allainhorn (toward S), creating a great wall in the E side of the Mischabel The least important and briefest one is the summit ridge between the Dom summit and the Gabel (Dom’s antisummit) and it is 230 m length. The Dom’s shape is quite complex and it presents five ridges: The Eastern one is the summit of a Grand Gendarme with a 4468 mts. The Western one is so-called “Gabel” and it represents the Dom’s antisummit: it is 4480 mts. The highest one (with a cross) lies in the middle, it is 4545.42 meters height with a trapezium shape (if viewed from North or South). What makes folks call this summit the “pitchfork” is the presence of many peaks close to each-other, in fact Dom has one main peak and two secondary peaks: The name “Mischabel” comes from a ancient German dialect term for “pitchfork for the manure” and it was the former name of the Dom, even if during years the name entitled all the Chain.
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