Nadelhorn

The first of the great Mischabel summits to be climbed, on 16 September 1858 by a party led by the Saas-Almagell guide Franz Andenmatten by the long north-east ridge — the Nadelgrat — which is still the voie normale. The Mischabel chain runs from the Dürrenhorn in the north to the Strahlhorn in the south and contains more 4000-metre summits in close succession than any other ridge in the Alps; the Nadelhorn was the first link in the chain to fall to the climbers.