Auf der Hörnlihütte – Hitzesommer am Matterhorn | Hoch hinaus 2022 | Doku | SRF Dok

Actually, Martin should have replaced Edith now. Lehni is slightly comatose. No, I think for once he slept very well. He didn't hear the cell phone or the alarm clock or the generator that was around. 7 in the morning is quite lively. We grant him this dream and leave him. maybe he then he can act again. Hello! - Good day! At 7:30 the Air Zermatt supply flight is announced. I hear nothing. No radio communication, nothing. Of course I'm happy when he does that with the water and the generator. And he is happy when I do the office. We should be able to cover the rest for each other. 650 kg of drinks and food.

Eggs, be careful! There is a supply flight every other day. 90 eggs arrived. 100 yogurts. There should be more yogurt to come. There are four cartons of whole milk. Good day! I heard a helicopter. - How are you? Good day! You were in a coma. I got out of bed. - How are you? Better? But. - You were able to sleep again. Yes, I could sleep. - Then have some coffee now! Where is my...? I put everything away so you can sleep. I still have muscle pain. The last two or three days I've had a little... But the tension is gone.

I have to ask him what he injected. There is little time left to clean the cabin. Moses, the newcomer, is awake. Good day! In reality, he is the only one left in the room. Nobody booked two nights. - But. He's in 23. So you do the bathroom? - If, according. The new Hö

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ütte is more of a hotel than a mountain hut. These include showers and toilets with running water at more than 3,000 m altitude. To the bed. And go! Edith told me to make a Matterhorn with the pillow. Martin and I have a deluxe version. They gave us a big room.

For us, such a luxurious option in a mountain refuge is also very unusual. But we enjoyed it. It's a retreat, although we don't come here often. It's really for sleeping. Martín, the mountain guide: Whenever he has time, his eyes are on the mountains. It is only 9:30 in the morning and the first mountaineers are already returning. Actually, it's too early. It's Denis with his French guest. Well done. - Is older. It was good? He already felt bad that night. At midnight he vomited. We said we would go as far as we could until he felt it was no longer possible.

At the Lower Red Tower we turned around. In fact, he was doing well for us in terms of time. We walk at a leisurely pace. But then you noticed that he began to walk with an unsteady step. That was definitely the best decision. It is always important that you see it yourself. At more than 4,000 m, the first climbers can be seen in the summit area. Other years the Matterhorn was still full of snow at this time of year. Now, because of the dryness and heat, there is a lot of debris that sometimes falls off. This worries Denis.

A problem will surely arise when there is no longer snow on the roof. If it breaks, there may be more rock falls and you will be on the fixed ropes below. That's definitely a problem. You have to see this every day. If you see something, you have to tell others. Maybe then the Matterhorn will close. Worst of cases. The mountain has been under observation for a long time after a large rock eruption in the last hot summer of 2003. Bye, Martin! - How are you? It's all under control? Jan Sache regularly visits Martin in Hö

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He is a scientist and has been measuring movement on the mountain since the eruption. The turret we pay the most attention to lasts, lasts and lasts. Everyone who looks at it thinks that tomorrow it will collapse. Nobody understands it. - Welcome! Shall we have an aperitif? Today Jan Bag wants to replace a sensor for measurements directly under the Hörnlihütte. He has been collecting live data from the mountain for over 15 years to hopefully predict another rockfall. What is that now? This is a wireless sensor for our previous measurement points. Now this is just a wireless broadcast to the radio.

You need to put a new battery there. The current heat also worries him. Because when permafrost melts, the water pressure makes the rock explode. We are here in Hörnlihütte. Of course we also have the data from the weather station. We can see how the last week is getting warmer. The night before last and last night there were positive temperatures at 4,000 m. This is extremely unusual. That's stress for the mountain, that's pure stress. If you can't cool down even at night when there are no clouds, you heat the mountain. This goes in depth. After a while, this heat reaches the depths and gradually thaws the frozen rock there.

Of course, instabilities can occur. Thawing deep permafrost is a danger. The lack of ice on the surface is another. When ice no longer covers the scree layers, the risk of rock falls, caused by mountaineers, increases. Martin asks his colleagues what it is like every day, especially at the summit. How was the roof? Was it still good? - It was ok. I think it's worse if there's suddenly no snow. That is precisely the problem. - It does have debris, right? As long as the ice doesn't leak, it's fine. But it could be that it takes away the ice in the next few days.

Information from returning mountain guides is important. But I have to say that I only ask those... ...who know what they're talking about. Turbo, for example, visits the Matterhorn about 20 times a year. And he is the same age as me. With him I know he will give me the information I need. Martin will therefore not warn mountaineers against climbing the Matterhorn in the coming days. It's Saturday at lunchtime. Mountain guide David Fasel returns from the mountain with the women. It was great. Mega. This is simply one of the best things. It took a bit of breathing room to get there.

But everything went well, we were in the best hands. This is actually the true summit. Top tip! - It was great. Thank you! 7 hours 15 minutes, with a break of about 3 minutes. Is the spaghetti here? There's still cheese here. Still the soup. - Here comes another soup. The second Frenchman also arrives. It was difficult. But we did it. The descent was harder than the ascent. The legs, the knees... You have to prepare very well, otherwise it won't work. *Cough* After a good 10 hours, 14-year-old Linus and his father also show up. Congratulations! - Thank you! It was good? - Yes very beautiful.

Difficult? Yes, the hardest thing I've done so far. As was? Was it strict? Yes. I was there two years later. I went with my father for the first time when he was 16 years old. My father went up and down here several times. He went up 650 times. Actually? I can't handle that much. It's night in the cabin, but there is a problem. We suspect that two people are bivouacking or camping. You're not allowed to do that. Our kids are the overpowered cops, as we call them. They scare them and chase them to scare them. I have to breathe.

Apparently there are two Iranians who want to spend the night out. Are you planning to camp here? No, we wait until it's 1 o'clock. 2 or 3 hours later we want to leave. You are not allowed to sleep here. - Yes I know. Also for going to the bathroom. - Yes I know. Certainly? If you go to the bathroom here, it will end up in the water. So the water is in the Hörnlihütte... Where? - Like drinking water. Get to the glaciers and then to the cabin. This is the reason why camping is prohibited here. We don't want to be bad. - Not all it's rigth.

If you stay here, you will have to pay money later. If you sleep here there is a bus. We thank you for the information and we go down immediately. In the end, they still sleep here behind a rock. It's always the same. The next day: The mountain calls again. Bye everyone! Have a nice day! *Laughs* Ciao everyone! Have a nice day! And far. Aren't they already wrong? Another hot day with positive temperatures of almost 5,000 m, scientist Jan also heads to the Matterhorn today to see the motion sensors on the Hörnligrat. To where the rockfall was last hot summer.

The mountain is still silent. But the scientist does not give the go-ahead. If it rains really a lot, hard and quickly - every day - or perhaps continuous rain, then we have a problem. When water hits warm rock, much more ice melts deeper down. Martin Lehner also checks his water supply today. This time from further down. We'll see. The water continues to arrive, there is still an influx. * Rumbling on the mountain * This is ice breaking off. Glaciers have been receding since about 1860. But certainly not as fast as in the last 15 years. They've been coming back for as long as I can remember.

My father already said that. Of course, they were much further along then. Now you can see them disappear. Before you saw them get smaller, now you see them disappear. That makes you think. Now we hope that there will still be enough water this summer. A hut as large and modern as the Hörnlihütte needs too much water. His wife Edith will be questioned again in the coming days. They will thaw at 7 p.m. I set it to 10 minutes. Freddy, the only cook, takes three days off. Edith and the kitchen help Peter have to take charge.

We will do it. Otherwise, guests just have to be a little flexible and wait if something goes wrong. My God, we are all human. Bye bye. The first weekend of summer vacation is over. The Lehners have a moment to chat with friends. If you don't have time downstairs, you can meet at Hörnlihütte. Hello. All the mountaineers have returned to the cabin; only one is missing: the lonely Moses. Alone and without a mountain guide, this morning he set out for the Matterhorn. Now the mountaineers have to accompany him back to the cabin. He didn't reach the summit.

He was there, at the base of the wall, towards the snow. You're lost? - Yes. Two guardian angels. I'm lost. I thought he had fallen over there. He dropped stones that we heard. Then he asked for help. It was dangerous? -Yes. He was standing on a steep rock wall and didn't notice it from above. We yelled at him not to continue any further. Otherwise, he would have been very dangerous. It's a miracle he's here. - Yes. Luckily I hit her, otherwise I would have called the emergency services. You have to drink a lot. Are you still going down?

I missed the train. - Yes, the last one was at 5 in the afternoon. Step by Step. - Step by Step. Does the lamp still work? You will need them. Returning to the village and traveling home with the remaining forces is complicated. But he's back healthy, so... ...that puts the rest into perspective. A week later, another loner is not so lucky. He slips on a rock and falls fatally. Just a little information for tomorrow: 3.30 - breakfast. Please don't come down earlier. What cabin workers don't know yet: The hiking trail will have to be temporarily closed because debris is falling.

And: The Matterhorn will soon be completely snow-free and local guides won't be able to climb it for another two weeks. It's too dangerous for them. SWISS TXT / Accessibility services puretype gmbh -

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