Hörnli Hut
The Hörnli Hut (German: Hörnlihütte) is a mountain hut located at the foot of the north-eastern ridge (Hörnli Ridge) of the Matterhorn. It is situated at 3,260 metres (10,700 ft) above sea level, a few kilometres south-west of the town of Zermatt in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is also known as Berghaus Matterhorn. [1]
The first Hörnli hut was built by the Swiss Alpine Club in 1880 and had 17 beds. It has since been expanded and rebuilt several times. In 1911, the municipality of Zermatt built a hut directly next to the Hotel Belvédère (also Berghaus Matterhorn). Both were merged in 1987 and managed by the municipality and offered since its last renovation in 1982 a number of 170 beds. From 2013 to 2015, the Belvédère was renovated and a new extension built. The original Hörnli hut was demolished.
The new hut was inaugurated on 14 July 2015, the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of the mountain. It offers 130 beds (in a total of 34 8-,6-,4- and 2-person rooms) and an enlarged kitchen, modernized sanitation with showers and electricity from solar energy. Camping around the hut is prohibited and there is a winter room with limited provisions.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Overcrowding on the several routes have become an issue and guides and local authorities have struggled with how to regulate the numbers. The new Hörnli hut became the first mountain shelter in Europe to purposely limit the number of beds.[9]
The hut is accessible to hikers. From the cable car station of Schwarzsee (or from Zermatt) a marked trail leads to the ridge and then to the hut. It is used to climb the Matterhorn on the normal route. The Solvay Hut lies also higher on the same ridge, but can only be used in case of emergency.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Hörnlihütte Zermatt - Reservation". Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Bote, 1815 ch, Walliser (12 April 2018). "Der Wächter des Matterhorns hört auf". www.1815.ch. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Matterhorn: Hörnlihütte eingeweiht". ALPIN.de (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ Arnu, Titus (9 July 2015). "Neu eröffnete Hörnlihütte - Schlaflos unterm Matterhorn". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ Orth, Stephan (8 July 2015). "Matterhorn-Jubiläum: Kurt Lauber über die Hörnlihütte". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "Berggänger rümpfen ob der neuen Hörnlihütte die Nase: Am Matterhorn stinkts!". Blick (in Swiss High German). 8 January 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ Thumshirn, Christian (6 August 2015). "24 Stunden Hörnlihütte". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ Redaktion, Climbing de (13 July 2015). "Zermatt: Die neue Hörnlihütte wird am 14.07.2015 eingeweiht". Climbing.de (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ McMillan, Kelley (13 July 2015). "Swiss Move to Reduce Stress on the Matterhorn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 May 2025.