Western Breithorn – Pollux (4,092 m) loop from Klein Matterhorn

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Western Breithorn – Pollux (4,092 m) loop from Klein Matterhorn

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Western Breithorn – Pollux (4,092 m) loop from Klein Matterhorn

06:40

10.4km

510m

Mountaineering

Hard mountaineering route. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

Last updated: July 30, 2026

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Includes a segment that is highly dangerous

A part of this route comprises highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 1.41 km for 7.88 km

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146 m

Glacier Palace (Gletscherpalast), Klein Matterhorn

Highlight • Cave

Sparkling ice crystals and dazzling ice sculptures enchant visitors to the Glacier Palace. A passenger lift takes you 15 meters below the ice surface of the glacier. Here the fairytale palace enchants in the middle of the eternal ice. You go through ice tunnels through the glacier, into a crevasse or to the ice slide. Cozy furs lie on ice benches and ice sculptures lead you into the world of ice fairy tales. The sculptures are regularly renewed. They were designed by ice artists.
Source: zermatt.ch/Media/Attractions/Gletscher-Palast

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158 m

Glacier Palace, Matterhorn Glacier Paradise

Highlight • Cave

1.20 km

Western Breithorn

Highlight • Summit

From the Rifugio Guide del Cervino on the Plateau Rosà - which you can reach by cable car from Cervinia - you follow the route of a ski lift on the glacier until you reach the large plateau on the Breithorn at the end of the ski slope. From here you continue north to the main glacier, where you pay careful attention to the crevasses. The climb continues over the steep slope, usually on a diagonal from right to left, to the snow-covered ridge, which is bordered by a bowl on the Swiss side. Further to the right you finally reach the broad summit, an excellent vantage point from which you can see the mountain group at Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn and the mountains of the Vallese.

Descent: via the same route as the ascent.

This hiking trail requires experience in high mountains and should only be undertaken when accompanied by a mountain guide.
Source: lovevda.it/de/katalog/7/bergstieg/breuil-cervinia/westliches-breithorn/2634

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5.25 km

Pollux (4,092 m)

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The lower of the two twins Castor and Pollux, two four-thousanders in the Valais Alps, located between the Breithorn massif and Liskamm
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(mountain)

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