The Allalinhorn is one of the 4000m peaks above Saas Fee and it’s possible to make the summit on skis from the top of the lift system. The forecast for the day wasn’t brilliant and I wasn’t really sure if we’d get clear weather or not but driving up to Saas Fee in the morning I could see it was going to clear.

We managed to ride on of the first lifts and we were at the top of the lift system around 0900 before the top drag lifts were running so we started to make the climb straight out of the cable car, a rising traverse under the north side of the Allalinhorn itself.


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