After having climbed Zinal Rothorn Kurt and I took the high route over Col Durand which makes a great passage from Grand Mountet Hut to Schönbiel Hut. Dent Blanche is a big and remote mountain so after one night spent in Schönbiel Hut we got just a bit closer to our objective by making it to Cabane de la Dent Blanche the next day. By coincidence the Hut Warden and her nepalese assistant had been on Ama Dablam at the same time previous autumn and were now planning a trip to Everest in 2007.
Season was getting on and it was weekend so we where not to start the route alone the next morning. Slightly cloudy morning ended up being one of the most beautiful ones I have ever seen. The climb itself was uneventful and enjoyable and we made it good time back to the hut. We had gotten to the hut by the Wandfluelucke route and wanted to try the alternative way going to the Schonbiel Hut over the glacier via Tete Blanche. As a result of unusually warm nights the glacier was in awful condition not to mention the shere length of the route. Unlike we had planned we did not continue to Zermatt the same night but stayed at the hut to heel our sore bodies.