A Viking is Hiking

Due to my hiking guide training and other circumstances, I was quite a bit late organizing this year's hut hike. Usually, I book the hut at the very beginning of the year, but when I finally took a look in April, it wasn't that easy to still find a hut with enough space for me and my six friends that wanted to join. In the end, the best option among the few possible huts was the Lidernen hut, as it was reachable easy enough and there were plenty of nice trails in the area. Un

While I had done a few alpine climbs before, I never did one where I had to walk over a proper glacier. So far, it had either been without snow at all, or the glaciers were that far gone already that I could just walk over it. For a long time I had it in my mind to start doing those glacier treks, but a few things were holding me back: the gear that I would've had to purchase, a course that I would've had to visit to learn the handling and the guided tours that I would've had