Jungfrau, the third highest summit in the…
August 1811 CE
With several servants and a porter picked up at Guttannen, having reached the Valais by way of the Grimsel, the climbing party had crossed the Beich Pass, a glacier pass over the Oberaletsch Glacier, to the head of the Lötschen valley.
There they had added two local chamois hunters, Alois Volken and Joseph Bortis, to their party and traversed the Lötschenlücke before reaching the Aletschfirn (the west branch of the Aletsch Glacier), where they established the base camp, north of the Aletschhorn.
After the Guttannen porter was sent back alone over the Lötschenlücke, the party finally reaches the summit of the Jungfrau by the Rottalsattel on August 3.
They then recross the two passes named to their point of departure in Valais, and go home again over the Grimsel.
It will not be until 1865 that a more direct route on the northern side is opened.
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