Last weekend of July we travelled down to Austria / Vent near Sölden to climb up to the Wildspitze, which is the highest mountain of Tirol.

So we slowly started at Vent to hike to the Breslauer Hütte. Vent is located at a sea level around 1.850 m, so the way up to the Breslauer Hütte (2.890 m) was an easy climb up. 1.000 m without any snow isn’t a challenge…

So finally after 2:20 hrs we arrived at the Breslauer Hütte with a wonderful view…

Sunset in the mountains:

So sitting outside during sunset and having a beer, what else do you need?

After an evening meal we had a very short night, cause we had to get up at 4:30 in the morning to get an incredible early breakfast and started at 6:00 to climb up the next 1.000 m – the more advanced climb of the weekend…

So, a heavy backpack, consisting of cameras, lenses, crampons, ice axes, carabiner, rope, helmets, gloves, jackets, … at the end something about 22 kg – heavy for a 45° degree ice climb.

As you can probably see, after the ice climb we straight went into the via ferrata which means you don’t have any chance to get rid of you crampons – you need to keep them at your feets and climb up with the through the via ferrata up to the top, using you rope and your Y-rope where possible…

So thanks Ronny, who was our guide this weekend for leading us safely. He was really experienced and had a lot of patience with us 🙂

As this part of the day was completely above 3.000 m (Wildspitze is at 3.770 m) everything you do, is really exhausting; people move like in a slow motion movie

Via ferrata way back down, which is even more difficult compared to way up. Trust me 🙂

Finally we all came back down to „the earth“ in Vent, some more less hurt, but all in a good mood, ready for a relaxing evening in nice Sölden. Very nice weekend, thanks to the group and Ronny for this incredible weekend 🙂