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From the Hockenhorngrat (Lauchernalp/Lötschental ski area)

From the Hockenhorngrat (Lauchernalp/Lötschental ski area) Mutthornhütte SAC 2901 m

Difficulty

PD-
Ascent

3:30–4 h, 260 m
Descent

670 m
Exposure

E, S, NW

Fastest and easiest approach. Can be combined with a number of optional summits.

Route overview: Hockenhorngrat - Mutthornhütte (until Petersgrat). © VBS André Kohn

Starting point on the Hockenhorngrat. Bietschhorn in the background. © Fabian Lippuner

First tracks in the undulating terrain beneath the Lötschenpass-Petersgrat skyline. © Nicolas Merky

Near Tennbachlücke (pass). View towards Birghorn. Tschingelhorn and Breithorn in the background. © Christoph Giger

On route beneath the Birghorn © Nicolas Merky

View from Birghorn towards Petersgrat. © Christoph Giger

Mutthornhütte - SAC section Weissenstein. (2007) © Toni Brunner

Route description

Hockenhorngrat – Petersgrat – Mutthornhütte

From the top station of the Gandegg – Hockenhorn cableway (3086 m) descend the (black) Petersgrat slope down over the impressively steep Milibach glacier and then follow the «red» Milibach slope left (E) and round the corner to below the Märbiglücke (2944 m). At approx. 2720 m, slap on your skins, then head northeast along the south-west flank of the ridge line. A steep section (50 m of 36 °) brings you to a saddle northwest of point 2910. Continue (as economically as possible) north-east over the remnant Tennbach glacier to reach the Tennbachlücke (3107 m). From there maintain an altitude of ca. 3100 m and cross the Tellingletscher, beneath Elwertätsch and Birghorn and up onto the impressive broad glacier hump back of the Petersgrat (3202 m). Descend northeast over the gently sloping glacier to the hut.

Variant: from Gandegg

Ski down the blue Wissis Täli slope from Gandegg to 2600 m in the Milibach, attach skins, and move across into the hollow west of the Stieltihorn (2749 m). Climb this short steep step northwards, past P. 2910 and join the route from the Hockenhorngrat, somewhere in the fall line of the Sackhorn.