For those with the required level it is an obvious ski target and with careful timing will allow a descent on softening spring snow. Much harder but one of the finest routes of its type in the Alps, is the Schreckhorn Lauteraarhorn traverse, separately described. This is a major outing of considerable length.

From the bivi hut drop down onto the glacier and follow it up to about 3000m. You are passing beneath an area of seracs, high up and R, but these will be invisible in the dark. You need to make sure it actually is still dark at this point, in order to be early enough up and down the S facing slopes that you’re heading for. In good conditions this will be frozen snow all the way. This is more typical early season. Later on there will be shattered rock and rubble to negotiate. The route in the second half takes the snow on the L of a shading ridge to the R, but an alternative is to take to the rocks further L. Head up to the SE Ridge, just to the L of pt 3918m. From here it is an exposed but not difficult climb up solid rock to the summit. Descent is the same in reverse. Only the fittest will head out the same day, due to the length of the hut approach.