Access / Routes / Activities

Getting there

By public transports or by car, via Visp – Randa (covered car park)
 

Approach path (only in summer)

From Randa via Jatzalp 4 h 30, T2
From Randa via Wildi - Schatzplatte 5 h, T3
Mountain tracks marked white-red-white

Summits to climb from the hut

  • Weisshorn 4506 m via E ridge (Normalr oute), AD, 3a
  • Wysse Schien 3323 m, PD (ice axe and crampons required)

Other routes

  • Weisshorn - Tracuit  hut (ascent via E ridge, descent via N ridge), AD+ to 4a
  • Schatzplatte - Hohlichtgletscher - Mettelhorn - Zermatt, F (glacier equipment required)
     

Round hike (strenuous in one day, more pleasant with a night in the hut)

  • Randa - Jatzalp - Weisshorn hut - Schatzplatte - Randa or the other way round, 1500 m climb and also in descent

 

Overview of SAC walking and climbing grades (in French)