'Rear Fiescherhorn' — hinter in Swiss-German alpine naming means 'further away', as seen from the originally inhabited side of the range (here, from Fiesch). The Hinter Fiescherhorn lies further into the glacier basin than its larger sibling.
Southern neighbour of the Gross Fiescherhorn, lying entirely in Valais. Most commonly combined with the Gross Fiescherhorn on a single traverse from the Mönchsjoch.
The 'rear' Fiescherhorn — climbed in 1864 by the Swiss-Bernese alpinist Edmund von Fellenberg with three Oberland guides. Fellenberg was one of the most active and best-documented Swiss climbers of the 1860s, the author of careful first-ascent accounts in the early SAC Jahrbücher, and would go on the next year to take the Gross Grünhorn. The Hinter Fiescherhorn is usually climbed today as part of a traverse with the Gross Fiescherhorn from the Mönchsjochhütte.
Route lines are approximate — drawn from guidebook waypoints, not GPS tracks. Don't navigate by them.
