"The day after summiting Dom we descended from the Domhutte (2936m) to Randa (1400m), and on the same day fully loaded the huge backpack and walked up to the Taschhutte (2700m) from Tasch (1400m). Starting the next day at 4 am, we summited Alphubel by the SE ridge (PD+) with some fun snow climb on the steep snow slope below the summit plateau (4206m). Returned by the easy normal route and all the way down to Tasch (1400m). This concludes my 14 days of almost non-stop ascents to 13 peaks (10 UIAA 4000ers) with 150km of total distance walked/climbed and +14,000 elevation gain. What a great trip I had! Miss the Alps already... " — Christos • Aug 16, 2019

"With Mountain Ventures party. From Täsch Hütte. It rained a bit in the night, which we found as fresh snow on the mountain high up. Left hut at 04:45 for Alphubel via Rotgrat route. Anne Jago and I were on Lew Hardy's rope. We followed the Wissgrat and then the Rotgrat. Mostly it was fairly easy rock and we moved together. There were two ice sections requiring crampons. Above this the rocks are very steep and the English language guide book suggests making a rising right traverse into a steep couloir. However, this has stonefall danger, so we kept out of the couloir as suggested by a new French language book of 100 best climbs. The final section was very steep ice 60° climbed with front pointing and using ice scree as belay half way up. As weather worsened – cloudy, hailing or snowing – we did not seek the actual top which is difficult to locate in mist. In any case we had to be sure of getting down the correct way. Difficult descent moves on steep ice before we found the south east ridge. We went down to the Alphubel Joch with small cornices and bergschrunds to keep us on our toes. Then down the northern branch of the Alphubel Gletcher. Täsch Hütte was reached at 19:00." — peter43 • Aug 10, 1983