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To: GoodGord who wrote (109109)	8/1/2018 8:38:42 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 218515

Yes, the Haute Route is a well marked path and stays below 9000 feet, and I believe mostly across glasier, we we're not anywhere near that route... our route began at Interlacken, a small town at the base of Jungfrau... Glaciers can be very dangerous since you never really know how deep the ice and/or snow is and you could easily step and fall into a crevice and fall many hundreds of feet and then get jammed between the ice and die a slow and very painful death... we crossed a glacier but we actually went through a tunnel in that glacier that led us out and upward towards the summit plateau... the plateau itself wasn't really flat like a plateau, but it was lots more horizontal and you could actually stand and walk on it... Jungfrau's summit plateau was at 14,000 feet, that's the highest Alpine peak... The air was very thin so we had to walk in slow motion in order to breath and not burn up our oxygen too quickly... the air was also very cold, some guys with beards and/or mustaches had icicles hanging off them... We stayed at the plateau for about an hour, took pics of the view and of each other, and then began heading back down... It took two days, we had two base camps to prepare for each next assault higher... the first base camp was at about 7000 feet and the second base camp was at 10,000 right at the top of the tree line, there's where we prepared our final assault to the top and we crossed the glacier and trekked upward to the summit plateau itself... It was a truly magnificent experience and I would do it again with no hesitation, standing on the summit plateau of the tallest Alpine mountain in Switzerland is when you know you're really alive... GZ