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So how much would it be to climb Matterhorn including flights and including a guide ?

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

About £2000. More if being guided on acclimatisation routes.

In reply to MG:

For Hornli ridge ?

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Yes

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

I think it's Hornli ridge, you kinky devil!

In reply to Phantom Disliker:

Oh I just realised smh

In reply to MG:

Hmm 2k seems quite cheap

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Strikes me as outrageously expensive but there we are.

In reply to MG:Well people pay 10k to go Florida  and 20k plus to go on Mount Everest and like 5k to go killamanjaro 2k to climb one of the best and most iconic routes isn’t to bad especially with a guide 

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Grade 2 scrambling to AD's quite a jump.
Your man'll be earning his Francs there

In reply to Bacon Butty:

i though it was grade 2 3 climbing 

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Guide rates are about £300 a day and on routes like the Matterhorn could be £350 a day. So an expensive game but well worth it if you can afford it. In many cases you pay the guides uplift too and hut fees. 

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

The Matterhorn of Easedale is the cheapest option and doesn't require a 2-week quarantine. It's Grade 2 so may push you to the limit

In reply to Lankyman:

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/winnats_pass-1239/matterhorn_ridge...

This is more my kind of level these days.
Winter III sounds interesting.  If we get a decent winter, might have to get me mate down from Scotland to have a shufty at that.

In reply to Bacon Butty:

Is AOITB not in Yorkshire at the minute?
 

if so, he could have a go on this one...

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/almscliff-373/matterhorn_ridge-603...

In reply to no_more_scotch_eggs:

That’s next week and what’s elbow ridge like ?

In reply to no_more_scotch_eggs:

Ah, the intro to one of my first ever leads, nice shiney Whillans and EBs, mate's kinked and twisted more than a corkscrew school climbing club's rope, stuff a hex 6 or 7 in the break ...

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Is the Matterhorn slippery when it’s wet?

In reply to Donotello:

Hmm probably yes 

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Snows even worse and don't mention ice

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Definitely tricky! Lots of people can't tell their ar*es from it.

In reply to Lankyman:

Do u need a rope 

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Ye it wet al tim

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

Flying isn't essential. You could go by train. 

In reply to Cneifion Arête:

That's the winter price. Guides charge by the minute and in winter most folk ski off the summit back down to the hut for apple strudel, then continue down the valley home.