Valais Alps 2003

Alpine holiday in the Valais Alps of Switzerland from Saturday, 5th July 2003 to Saturday 19th July, with Graeme Watson, John Clinton, Alan Thomas, Mark Harris and Milt Ives. We were based first at Arolla, then moved to Zermatt.

Images are © Jonathan Gregory (except where indicated) 2003.

See also the MOBILE VERSION of this album, and the OTHER ALBUMS.

Each thumbnail image below is a link to its own picture page, and each picture page has a link to the next one.

Val d'Anniviers to the Cabane de Moiry, Sunday 6th July
24-18 24-17 Mayoux 24-16 Barrage de Moiry
24-15 Glacier de Moiry, with the Pointes de Mourti above it on the R, and the Grand Cornier in the distance on the L 24-14 Ablation valley on the bank of the Glacier de Moiry
24-13 On the terrace of the Cabane de Moiry: Alan Thomas, John Clinton (standing), Mark Harris, Milt Ives, Graeme Watson 24-12 View across the Glacier de Moiry from the Cabane, with the Pointes de Mourti (3563 m) on the L and the Pointe de Moiry (3303 m) on the R
24-11 View across the Glacier de Moiry of the Couronne de Bréona (3159 m)
Dent des Rosses (3613 m) and Pointe de Bricola (3658 m) from the Cabane de Moiry, Monday 7th July
24-10 Looking back down the Glacier de Moiry onto the W side of the Val de Moiry 24-09 Grand Cornier (3962 m) on the L and Dent Blanche (4356 m) on the R, seen from near the Dent des Rosses
24-08 Below the Dent des Rosses, with the Pigne de la Lé behind 24-07 View along the ridge between the Dent des Rosses and the Pointe de Bricola, with the Dent Blanche beyond on the L
24-06 Looking back along the ridge and the Dent des Rosses from the Pointe de Bricola
25-03 25-04 Graeme, John and Mark on the Pointe de Bricola
Attempt to climb the Grand Cornier from the Cabane de Moiry, Tuesday 8th July
We reached the NW foresummit (3845 m).
25-06 Ascending the glacier 24-05 Grand Cornier
24-04 View of the Val de Moiry, with Wildstrubel beyond on the N side of the Valais
Walk up to the Rothornhütte (3198 m) from Zermatt, Thursday 10th July, and descent, Saturday 12th July
25-07 At Edelweiss (1961 m) above Zermatt 26-37 View of Zermatt down the Triftbach
26-21 26-20 Flowers by the path by the Triftbach
26-36 At Trift (2337 m) 26-34 Monte Rosa seen from Trift
26-32 Gabelhorngletscher above Trift 26-23 Monte Rosa on the L and Liskamm on the R
26-22 Monte Rosa, Liskamma, Zwillinge and Breithorn, from L to R
Ascent of Zinalrothorn (4221 m), Friday 11th July
26-31 Zinalrothorn seen from P3786; the Gabel is the notch on the SW ridge, which runs down L from the summit 26-30 Matterhorn seen from the S flank of the Zinalrothorn; the Hörnli ridge is the L and the Zmutt on the R
26-29 Looking up towards the Gabel 26-28 Looking down on P3786, which is at the far end of the snow ridge
etc-p1010151 Graeme, Alan and Milt approaching the summit (John's picture) 26-25 John on the summit
26-24 John with the Weisshorn (4505 m) behind 26-26 Mark on the summit with the Mischabel behind, on the other side of the Mattertal
Walk up to the Hörnlihütte (3260 m), Sunday 13th July
26-19 Matterhorn from Hörnlihütte etc-p1010168 (John's picture)
Matterhorn (4478 m), Tuesday 15th July
etc-p1010175 On the summit (John's picture)
Walk to the Monte Rosa hut from Rotenboden on the Gornergratbahn, Thursday 17th July
26-14 Monte Rosa and the Gornergletscher from Rotenboden 26-13 John and Milt with the Riffelhorn behind (and the Matterhorn in clouds
26-12 26-11 26-10 Crossing the Gornergletscher
26-08 26-09
Ascent of Dufourspitze (4515 m), highest peak of Monte Rosa, Friday 18th July
26-07 Breithorn ridge on L, Matterhorn on R 26-06 Zinalrothorn on L, Weisshorn on R
etc-p1010199 Joining the ridge (John's picture) 26-05 View from summit down Gornergletscher, with Matterhorn to L of centre and Gabelhorn to R of centre
26-04 Nordend (4609 m) seen from Dufourspitze 26-03 View S, with the Margarita hut on the R
26-02 Descent
Zermatt and Mattertal
26-18 Matterhorn closed because of the rockfall of 15th July 26-17 Zermatt main street from the Hotel de la Poste
24-01 Church and casino 24-02 Looking NW to Edelweiss from Zermatt
24-03 Turmwang above Zermatt to NW 26-16 Zermatt seen from the Gornergratbahn
26-15 The clifts behind Zermatt, with the Triftbach valley between, and the Zinalrothorn behind 26-01 Debris of 1991 rockfall at Randa