Bishorn
'Twin horn' or 'ridge horn' in Walser German — most commonly read as a contraction of bi-Horn, 'next-to horn', referring to its position immediately north of the much higher Weisshorn, of which it is effectively a fore-summit.
Twin-summited snow peak immediately north of the Weisshorn, often climbed as a first 4000er via glacier from the Cabane de Tracuit above Zinal.
The 'forepeak' immediately north of the Weisshorn — a broad snow dome reached easily from the Tracuit hut. First climbed on 18 August 1884 by an English party with the St-Niklaus guides Imboden, more than twenty years after the Weisshorn itself. The Bishorn is the easiest 4000er in the Pennine Alps and is widely used as a high-altitude training peak; from the summit, the view of the Weisshorn north ridge — perhaps the finest snow ridge in the Alps — is the main draw.
Summit · huts that serve as bases for routes on this peak
- Cabane de Tracuit3,256 m