'Crest of the Lys' — Kamm in German means a comb or ridge, and Lis is from the Lys (Italian Lys, German Lyster), the river that drains the southern side of the massif into the Val di Gressoney.
Higher of the two Liskamm summits; a long, heavily corniced snow-ice ridge known historically as the 'Menschenfresser' (man-eater).
The eastern, higher summit of the Liskamm was reached on 19 August 1858 by J. F. Hardy and a party of seven with the guides Christian and Ulrich Lauener, Stephen and Peter Perren and Karl Herr. The traverse from west to east summit along the celebrated corniced ridge is one of the great snow climbs of the Alps — and one of the deadliest. The Liskamm's reputation as 'der Menschenfresser' (the man-eater) comes from the long, heavily corniced summit ridge between Felikjoch and Lysjoch, which has broken under climbers more often than any other ridge of comparable popularity in the Alps.
Route lines are approximate — drawn from guidebook waypoints, not GPS tracks. Don't navigate by them.
