Bishorn

Mountaineers consider the Bishorn to be one of the easiest four-thousand-metre peaks in the Alps. However, climbing it by bike is anything but an everyday bike tour. In addition to rope safety, crampons, glaciers and mountaineers, there is still enough room for a proper bike descent. Directly from the summit at 4153 m, of course.

The Bishorn is known for the occasional breeze on the summit slope. It must have been blowing extremely hard up here the last few days. The edges of our skis find it difficult to grip and most of the way we are walking over bare ice, so crampons are very useful. Where there is no bare ice, there are oversized Zastrugies, which cause us to break in again and again and make every step twice as strenuous.