Stecknadelhorn
'Pinhead horn' or 'sewing-pin horn' in German — diminutive of the neighbouring Nadelhorn, on the assumption that if its bigger neighbour is a needle, this lesser summit is a pin.
Subsidiary summit on the Nadelgrat between the Nadelhorn and Hohberghorn. Almost always climbed as part of a Nadelgrat traverse rather than on its own.
The 'pinhead horn' — a granite shoulder on the Nadelgrat between the Nadelhorn and the Hohberghorn. First climbed in 1887 by the English engineer Oscar Eckenstein (later famous as the inventor of the modern crampon and as Aleister Crowley's K2 partner) with Matthias Zurbriggen, the great Macugnaga guide who would in 1897 make the first ascent of Aconcagua. The Stecknadelhorn is almost always traversed as part of a full Nadelgrat link-up from the Bordierhütte rather than climbed in isolation.
Summit · huts that serve as bases for routes on this peak
- Bordierhütte2,886 m
- Mischabelhütte3,329 m