Gastlosen and Miroir d'Argentine..

With snow to lower levels it was time to head to some lower level rock, this time in Switzerland. Mark Walker, Alison Culshaw and I decided to firstly do the highly rated limestone traverse of Gastlosen.

This traverse of the Eggturm (1934m) and Glattewandspitze (1995m) done South to North makes an excellent outing at AD+ (4c obl.) Mark and Alison are pictured just short of the Glattewandspitze, the ridge stretching out behind.

Following this we drove around to Villars to traverse the Miroir d'Argentine from the small hamlet of Solalex. This 2Km limestone ridge of AD/AD+ again gives a great outing but feels long. As advised by British Guide Bruce Goodlad we decided to "keep our foot down" and made the round trip in just over 8 hours, with 4.5 hours on the ridge..