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Another hut approach that reveals the inner sanctum of the mountain world, is that which goes from Stechelberg to the Rottal Hut on the southwest flanks of the Jungfrau. Here you virtually rub noses with the Gletscherhorn and Ebnefluh, and have a privileged view of the Breithorn seen in profile. All around mountains rise in an upthrust of rock and ice – the fabled Lauterbrunnen Wall so assiduously explored in the 1930s by the great Münich-based climber, Willo Welzenbach.

Next to the Breithorn stands the Tschingelhorn, with the saddle of Wetterlücke between them. On the far side of the Tschingelhorn nestles the Mutthorn Hut, almost entirely surrounded by ice. With several fine peaks made accessible from it, this hut proves popular with mountaineers in summer and is also visited on one of the walks described here, prior to a crossing of the Petersgrat with descent into the Lötschental in full view of the Gletscherstafel Wall, and the Bietschorn, one of the most difficult mountains hereabouts.