By that time, it should almost be around 3 - 4 PM. The whole glacier trail should take you around 2 hours to complete and you should end up at Trockener Steg cable car station. Go to the bottom of the glacier, and humbly stare at the mighty Matterhorn from the bottom of the glacier. This trail was no easier than the previous ones so don't let your guard down. Now we start the Glacier trail (trail #26).
Coming down from Hörnli Hut should take no longer than an hour. Once you are done, make your way down to the intersection we briefly mentioned and go right (toward the glacier). One and a half hour of crazy steep and slippery climb, you should reach the Hörnli Hut, the last mountain hut that stood right under the mighty Matterhorn. Go up and follow the trail along the side of Matterhorn. Once you are ready, head off to start trail #27 and make your way toward Matterhorn.Īround an hour of steady ground, you should reach an intersection with the option to either go left to the glacier or up to the Hörnli Hut. Congratulation, you have completed trail #28.
#MATTERHORN STARTRAIL FREE#
Follow the trail until you reach Schawarzee Paradise.īy then it should already be noon, and so feel free to stop here and eat lunch, go to the toilet or if you are like me, get more caffeine in your blood. You should see a huge swiss traditional house on top of a hill. Three hours of a steep climb and your surrounding should gradually shift from forest to a completely exposed mountain. Keep in mind that there are many possible paths to go from Zermatt to Schawarzee Paradise, our first stop, so be careful. Walk through Furi, and continue to follow the cable car line upward. Walk toward the northeast of Zermatt and follow the cable car line toward Furi. Start as early as 8 AM so that you can utilize most of the daylight available that day. The trail begins from the campground in Zermatt.
#MATTERHORN STARTRAIL FULL#
To download the full hiking map with all the available trails on and around Matterhorn, click here: Hiking Map around the Matterhorn. I suggest you download the map from the link below and save it on your phone as a backup in case you lost the physical map. Below is the overview of the trail we are going to take. You can see lights from the climbers returning to Hörnlihutte on the shoulder of the Matterhorn after summiting.We are going to combine several trails to create a one epic circuit that you can do in one full day. The far left of the image was cropped as Jupiter changed size into the beach ball that it is now. Jupiter is blown out due to passing low clouds - but the stars are not.
I was using a Sigma Art 35 1.4 - I brought the 20 along in case I made it to the lake - but the framing with the wider angle didn't make sense here.
I shot this with a Canon 6d Mk2 in Manual, 30s exposures, using High Speed Continuous to try and get seamless trails. I do wish I could get the tiny breaks in the exposures to be 'healed'. I painted out most of the air and satellite traffic, but after stacking and combining and pixel peeping I noticed so many more. I had planned to hike to a lake and work the Milky Way with a tracker - but time with family and focusing on being present with our guests pushed that out to another trip. taken from the porch of the apartment we rented for a few days in Zermatt, Switzerland. Only a short amount of time before I ran out of energy after a long day hiking and exploring.
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