Seen from the Rotondo hut the Witenwasserenstock is an amorphous lump of no distinction. Its eastern side-profile as seen from its fore-summit is another matter entirely. Throwing a sheer wall of a thousand feet down to the Gerengletscher, it would not look out of place in the Karakoram, Pakistan. Being east-facing, this profile begged to be photographed at sunrise, which called for another 4 o`clock rise to reach it in time for the event. Unfortunately I had only a 28mm lens with me. This crops to a narrower 42mm on my camera`s sensor. As a result both the bottom 100 metres of the face and the glacier at its foot are missing from the picture. It doesn`t alway pay to "go light".

Piz Lucendro just before sunrise,
Val Bedretto below

Gorge south of Disentis

Witenwasserenstock seen
from its fore-summit

Leckihorn from
Witenwasserengletscher

Summit cairn, Piz Rotondo
(peak - see thumbnail
directly below)

Sunrise beneath Piz Rotondo

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Camp below Rotondo hut

Piz Rotondo (left pinnacle)

Leckihorn from
near Rotondo hut

South side of Gotthard Pass

Witenwasserenstock, taken
from its fore-summit

Mittaghorn and Piz Gallinar from below
west side of Nufenen Pass

Hüenerstock from Witenwasserenstock

Witenwasserengletscher with
Rotondo hut middle right

Piz Pesciora just before sunrise

Swiss army "litter" above Val Bedretto

Looking north-east from
Witenwasserenstock

Capanna Piansecco,
south side of Piz Rotondo

Tällistock from the east side of
the Furka Pass

On summit of
Piz Rotondo

Gross Muttenhorn and Tällistock
from east of the Furka Pass

Val Bedretto, peaks of the
Rotondo group behind

Pizzo Colombe from south
of the Luckmanier Pass

River at Witenwasserenstafel
above Realp

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