Nadelgrat is a long chain which actually is a part of the Mischabel Chain. It consists of Dirruhorn (4035 m.), Hohberghorn (4219 m.), Stecknadelhorn (4241 m.), Nadelhorn (4327 m.), and Lenzspitze (4294 m.) which is not always considered as Nadelgrat but a separate summit on the Mischabel Chain.
Nadelgrat is most convinient to climb starting from the Mischabel Hut. The friendly hut warden advised me first to cross the upper Ried Glacier and start climbing Dirruhorn first completing the traverse to Nadelhorn. The route is long, relatively demanding and prone to weather so You should be able to move quickly over terrain to safely complete the traverse in one day. The rock quality varies a lot it being anything from soung gneiss to loose gravel.
I consider Nadelgrat as one of the finest traverses of the area after I climbed it in July 2006. I was especially happy to have met the excellent Warden/host of the Mischabel Hut. I was alone on the route that day so his tips became very usuful. The route took me first to Windjoch (which lives to it's name) from where the normal route up Nadelhorn starts. Instead of taking the route up Nadelhorn I descended to the upper Ried Glacier which I crossed to reach the couloir which would take me to the ridge in between Chli-Dirruhorn and Dirruhorn. When I reached the ridge the climbing was just straight forward going up and down the summits and small gendarmes. I reached Nadelhorn 11 hrs after my start and called it a day. On the summit I met two climbers from Zurich. They had climbed the spectacular North face (Dreieselwand) of Lenzspitze and traversed the knife-edge crest to Nadelhorn for easier descent. We were a party of three hammered climbers when we shared the way to the Hut. I guess we were hungry too since we quickly ended up talking about the specialties of the Swiss cuisine.

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