And so it was done. After another three weeks we started Sunday night at 11.30, crossed the border into Switzerland at 2.30 am and arrived at Zinal 6 am. We slept for three hours on a meadow beside our car, then started the hike to Cabane Tracuit at 10 am, arriving there at 4 pm. The next morning we got up at 3 am, left the hut at 4 \u2013 Jule, on her first climb ever, was moving like clockwork \u2013 and made the summit (4153 m) at 8.30. By 10.30 we were back at the hut, rested for 2 hours and got back to the car at 3.30 pm. After a swim in Lac de la Gruy\u00e8re we recrossed the border into Germany at 8 pm and got back home at 11.30.<\/p>\n
Two days later a friend called me: \u201cI have heard that you did a 4000-meter peak in 48 hours. Do you think we could do the same with Watzmann (in the Eastern Alps)?\u201d \u201cWhen?\u201d \u201cHow about this weekend?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n P.S. We did.<\/em><\/p>\n Bishorn-Express 1996 I blame a long evening in a bar in Victoria Falls (Africa) for the idea to climb a 4000-meter peak in the Alps in a 48-hour roundtrip from Frankfurt without the use of any cablecars. Six weeks later I was sitting together with Erik Jansen and his girlfriend… Continue Reading Bishorn-Express<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":680,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-762","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"h-entry","7":"h-as-page"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762\/revisions\/763"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenhemmleb.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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