Mönchsjochhütte

The Mönchsjochhütte stands at 3657 m on the Mönchsjoch col, a half-hour walk from the Jungfraujoch railway station — making it the most easily reached high hut in the Alps, accessible to any tourist with the price of a train ticket. The first hut on the site was built by the Berner Oberland section of the SAC in 1979, soon after the Jungfraujoch tunnel and station were modernised for mass tourism, and was extended to its present capacity of about 100 in the early 1990s.

The hut is the standard base for the Jungfrau and Mönch normal routes, both of which are short half-day climbs from here, and for ski mountaineering on the upper Jungfraufirn and Aletsch glaciers. Its accessibility has had an ambivalent effect on Bernese 4000-metre climbing: parties who would once have spent a strenuous full day approaching the Jungfraujoch from below can now arrive after lunch by train, sleep at the hut and tick a 4000er the next morning, which has made the Jungfrau and Mönch the most-climbed summits of their grade in the Alps and has made the upper Jungfraufirn a much busier place than its remote character suggests.

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