German for 'dry horn' — descriptive of its bare, ice-free lower flanks, in contrast to the heavily glaciated neighbouring Mischabel summits.
Northernmost 4000er of the Nadelgrat. Most often climbed from the Bordierhütte as part of the Nadelgrat traverse.
The northernmost summit of the Nadelgrat, climbed on 7 September 1879 by A. F. Mummery with two of the strongest guides of the era. Mummery would go on to become the great innovator of guideless and 'sporting' alpinism in the 1880s and 1890s — first ascents of the Grépon, the Charmoz, the Aiguille du Plan and others — before being killed on Nanga Parbat in 1895 in the first major attempt on an 8000-metre peak.
Route lines are approximate — drawn from guidebook waypoints, not GPS tracks. Don't navigate by them.
