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Isn’t it funny how things can appear very enjoyable and potentially underwear-changing at the same time? This was one of those days together with @danielperret Looking forward to more of this!

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Sustenhorn Ostgrat

At 3.30am my alarm rang. I was already awake, watching it, waiting. 

For breakfast I tried to force down some bread and cheese, but at that hour it was almost impossible. We left the beautiful @voralphuette just after 4am and made fast progress to the first section of our climb. Some pleasant scrambling, in the dark.

Then we headed for the glacier. Mentally I was prepared for the gentle slope I know from winter. Instead we found a labyrinth of deep holes and no obvious way through to our ridge. The only way out is through. Gently lowering myself down into a crevasse and carefully out the other side. Then shimmying across the wall I just climbed. 

We reached rock, and the hardest climbing was immediately there. I'm no climber, so it felt like a polished vertical wall. The fixed rope got us up — there's no way I could have done it otherwise.

Reaching the ridge was a relief. The challenges didn't stop, and a few sections had brute force and ignorance standing in for climbing finesse. But I really enjoyed it.

From the summit it was quickly clear that flying down would be possible. An incredible flight over the glacier, then the many turns of the Susten pass road weaving through the mountainside below.

Big thanks once again to the incredible @danielperret for leading the day. I will remember this one for the rest of my days.
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