Cornelia Mertens

A mountaineer crosses a rocky shoulder backlit by the sun rising over the ridge, with a sea of clouds and the glacier far below.

5 July 2024

Tödi

A big high tour to the Tödi (3614 m), the highest peak of the Glarus Alps — a long glacier and firn day from the Fridolinshütte to the 'King of the Grisons'.

Details coming soon.

Rugged rock flanks with green slopes and wisps of cloud, snow-capped peaks behind.

Dark peak silhouettes above a sea of clouds at dawn, an orange band along the horizon.

Blue glacier tongue with crevasses beside a brown rock wall in the early morning light.

Broken seracs along the top of a massive brown rock face in blue twilight.

Close-up of a blue glacier wall riddled with crevasses, framed by snow and dark rock.

A lone mountaineer crosses a vast snowfield toward a snowy peak under a deep blue sky.

A mountaineer with an ice axe climbs a snow slope, a large glaciated mountain flank behind.

Two roped mountaineers climb a snowy ridge under a deep blue sky.

Summit panorama with a broad snow dome and endless mountain ranges to the horizon.

Two mountaineers stand with a rope at the snowy summit cross before clouds and distant peaks.

A black alpine salamander on a stone amid a tuft of grass at the trail's edge.