Alpinist Andreas Steindl crosses five 4000m peaks from Zermatt to Saas Fee in a record time of 07h45:44 Zermatt / Herzogenaurach, 20 August 2015 – Swiss alpinist and adidas Outdoor athlete Andreas Steindl (26) has accomplished what most people deem impossible: he ran 30.66 kilometres from Zermatt to Saas Fee crossing five 4000m peaks, including the Dom, the highest mountain lying entirely in Switzerland, in a time that awes even the most experienced mountain guides. For the 4,014 metres vertical ascent across pathless terrain, glaciers and exposed ridges, Steindl needed only 7 hours, 45 minutes and 44 seconds.
Starting in Zermatt and finishing in Saas Fee, the next valley over, Steindl crossed the following five 4,000m+ peaks as part of his feat: Alphubel (4206m / 13799ft), Täschhorn (4491m / 14734ft), Dom (4545m / 14911ft), Lenzspitze (4294m / 14087ft), and Nadelhorn (4327m / 1419). The time of 7 hours and 45 minutes beat his previous best by 77 minutes.
Steindl grew up in Zermatt, surrounded by 38 four thousand metre high peaks. His father is a mountain guide, his mother a passionate amateur mountaineer. Now 26 years old, Steindl is a ski instructor, mountain guide, carpenter and competitive ski mountaineer. The idea for project developed from watching the mountains surrounding his home.
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“I always see the Taeschhorn and the Dom from my home, two beautiful pyramids that glow in the evening sun”, Andy Steindl explains. “I was eager to climb them. But the descent from the Dom is quite tricky. I wanted to find a safe way down to the valley, since I’m on my own out there. That’s why I chose the route across the five peaks.”
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