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Matterhorn.



Boy Blue

Banned
Mar 14, 2016
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Long shot but has anyone climbed the matterhorn or know any friends that have. It's a beautiful mountain and always appealed to me and more so because of the history.

I've no mountain experience apart from reading countless books about Everest, K-2, the Eiger and the Matterhorn and am going to book on next year's expedition. If Pipa Middleton and her brother James can conquer the Matterhorn without any experience ( experience is necessary unless you're related to royalty) then why can't I because I'm much fitter than those toffs and I'll not complain if I break my finger nail.

Costs around £3k.

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spence

British and Proud
Oct 15, 2014
9,809
Crawley
No mountain experience and you want to climb this?

My advice is to start off with Wolstonbury Hill then moving onto Skiddaw
 

Herr Tubthumper

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NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jul 11, 2003
59,073
The Fatherland
Conquered that many times
 

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Rogero

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Aug 4, 2010
5,704
Shoreham
I suggest you join a clinbing club. There are loads around. You cannot just turn up and climb. People die doing this sort of thing.
 


ATFC Seagull

Aberystwyth Town FC
Jul 27, 2004
5,306
(North) Portslade
Through work I've been lucky enough to spend some time in the French Alps doing various outdoor pursuits. Some of the instructors are serious mountaineers and we often walked/scrambled up to some of the lower refuges from where climbers attempt to summit some of the "lesser" Alpine peaks. I've seen climbers on their way up/down packing some serious gear and looking shattered, and heard some great stories from the people I was with about their own experiences. Like I said, we only ever ventured as far lower refuges. Without reading the details of this £3k package, I am astounded that they would let beginners go anywhere near that thing.
 

Stoichkov

The Miserable Bulgarian
Jul 26, 2004
1,330
Brighton
I walked up to the Hornli Hut a few years ago. I think it gets 'serious' from that point onwards.

Had a bowl of soup and walked back down.

A superb mountain
 


blueandwhitestripes

Active member
Mar 18, 2008
431
Sussex
Thought this was a thread about our new centre half :annoyed::
 

Boy Blue

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Mar 14, 2016
766
I suggest you join a clinbing club. There are loads around. You cannot just turn up and climb. People die doing this sort of thing.

I'm going to Boulders in Brighton next Tuesday. I know climbing plastic isn't the same as rock but I need to know what ropes are what and how to use carabiners. Crampons are straight forward.
 

Boy Blue

Banned
Mar 14, 2016
766
No mountain experience and you want to climb this?

My advice is to start off with Wolstonbury Hill then moving onto Skiddaw

No thanks. I just want to climb the well known mountians. I'll take my chances.
 


Boy Blue

Banned
Mar 14, 2016
766
I walked up to the Hornli Hut a few years ago. I think it gets 'serious' from that point onwards.

Had a bowl of soup and walked back down.

A superb mountain

Did you have to pay like being guided up or is it like backpackers just hiking up on their own.
 


WATFORD zero

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NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jul 10, 2003
25,550
I've seen the Matterhorn from a number of different places around the Alps over the last 30 years and it is an incredibly impressive sight.

I have seen a number of your threads and posts around NSC in the last couple of months and you are an incredibly stupid person.

I would suggest the two shouldn't and won't come together anytime soon.
 

LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
I'm going to Boulders in Brighton next Tuesday. I know climbing plastic isn't the same as rock but I need to know what ropes are what and how to use carabiners. Crampons are straight forward.
I have 32 years of climbing experience. Bouldering has nothing to do with mountaineering and doesn't involve ropes so this won't be of any use.

The easiest route up the Matterhorn is not difficult climbing wise (like most mountaineering) but it's exposed, on loose rock and is very sustained so fitness and being quick over tricky terrain is important.

To attempt this having done nothing similar before, although totally possible, would be pretty stupid. Better to get a load of mileage in first in Snowdonia, Lakes etc Not just walking but scrambling & climbing as the Matterhorn is basically quite difficult scrambling for around 1300m.

Without the experience, the likelihood that you would shit yourself at an inopportune moment and either endanger yourself and the rest of your party (or just waste your money by having to be escorted back down) would be quite high.

Also worth bearing in mind that lots of experienced climbers die in the Alps due to circumstances completely out of their control. Weather, rockfall, avalanches are indiscriminate. Paying £3k doesn't guarantee success or lack of death.
 


knocky1

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Jan 20, 2010
12,937
1995 Faisal's Finger 10 miles from Riyadh. The Arabian desert Matterhorn.
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On the top with a Scots help. First major climb.

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Hardest bit for me was abseiling down after we tied two 80m ropes together.
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Do the Matterhorn.
 

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