Finsteraarhornhütte

A remote SAC hut on the Hugisattel below the Finsteraarhorn at 3048 m, named after the Aargau naturalist Franz Joseph Hugi, who used the saddle as a base camp during his 1828 scientific expedition on the Finsteraar glacier. The Hugi expedition's stone bivouac is one of the earliest recorded examples of a manned high-altitude observatory in the Alps; the hut on the same spot was built by the SAC in 1907 and has been progressively extended and modernised, most recently in 2013.

The Finsteraarhornhütte is more isolated than any other 4000-metre hut in the Bernese Oberland: the approach from Grimsel is a long day across the Unteraar and Finsteraar glaciers (the same crossing on which Louis Agassiz built his 'Hôtel des Neuchâtelois' in 1840), and the alternative high-glacier crossing from the Konkordia hut over the Grünhornlücke takes most of a day from any reasonable starting point. The hut is the only practical base for the Finsteraarhorn's normal route on the south-west flank, and serves the Lauteraarhorn, Gross Grünhorn and the eastern Schreckhorn approaches.

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