Before we started the Haute Route, the guys & I spent a fun day of skiing at Zermatt. For fun, we made an "ascent" of the Kleine Matterhorn ...
The route to the summit is very challenging ... you first have to take a lift up ...
Then, walk through a tunnel in the mountain ...
The crux of the route is the final pitch to the summit. Here, the team prepares to use extreme aid to get up the hard part:
The final snow slopes mean an easy final ascent:
The summit!
And, a view of the "real" Matterhorn from the summit of the Kleine Matterhorn:
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