View of the Rhone Glacier – Sasso da Pigna Fortress loop from Furkapass

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View of the Rhone Glacier – Sasso da Pigna Fortress loop from Furkapass

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View of the Rhone Glacier – Sasso da Pigna Fortress loop from Furkapass

03:08

8.88km

290m

Hiking

Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that may be dangerous

A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.

After 5.81 km for 337 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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22 m

Furkablick Restaurant

Highlight • Restaurant

The nostalgic Furkablick restaurant has a lovely terrace from which you can look out over the valley below. It used to be a hotel, but today it's just a restaurant: furkablick.ch

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1.88 km

Grazing Yaks in Valais

Highlight • Natural

With a little luck 🍀 you can see yaks instead of cattle

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3.13 km

View of the Rhone Glacier

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If there is an entrance fee, it is definitely worth it. The glacier retreat is frightening. When I visited Gletsch for the first time in 1999, the tongue of the …

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4.37 km

Rhone Glacier Ice Cave

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Admission adults 9 CHF and children up to 16 years 6 CHF.

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5.17 km

Hotel Belvédère (Glacier Restaurant Belvédère)

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6.03 km

Sasso da Pigna Fortress

Highlight • Historical Site

Impressive bunker system. Further up there is an older facility

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8.88 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.40 km

1.50 km

1.45 km

333 m

185 m

Surfaces

4.78 km

1.99 km

985 m

527 m

475 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (2,450 m)

Lowest point (2,240 m)

Weather

Sunday 11 October

7°C

-1°C

0 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 7.0 km/h

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Comments

June 24, 2023,VQW 5 - Furkapass und Rhonegletscher

By train and post bus from Obergesteln up to the Furka Pass, hike to the Rhone Glacier, visit the ice grotto and the glacier lake. Then by post bus down to Andermatt.

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August 18, 2021,Auf zum Rhonegletscher, mit Maria, Marlene, Doreen und Heiko

Ride the car up to the top of the pass and then descend via the high path to the glacier lake. The camping coffee break on the smoothly polished rock was a small, successful highlight for our guests.

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