Mountaineering route
Hörnliweg: Schwarzsee – Hörnlihütte
Zermatt · Valais · Switzerland
ChallengingSAC T4
Rated by Zermatt Tourismus
Matterhorn Express Zermatt Schwarzsee or by car: Matterhorn Terminal Täsch
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Status today
- Restaurant Schwarzsee closed until 12 Dec
- Season: July – September · out of season
Elevation profile
12+14
Along the route
- 1
Schwarzsee cable car station
- 2
Restaurant Schwarzsee
- 3
Schwarzsee
- 4
Hörnlihütte
About the route
From the Schwarzsee cable-car station past the lake and its chapel up the marked, secured Hörnliweg to the Hörnlihütte. One way; back the same way in about 1 h 30.
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Nearby
In winter: Zermatt ski area Photo: Alexandrasophiewexler, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Arolla Photo: Xavier von Erlach / Unsplash
Saas-Fee Photo: Tiia Monto, CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Val de Bagnes Photo: Olivier Bruchez, CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Sources (12) · last checked October 2026
Route data checked: October 2026
- Zermatt Tourismus — route, access, history
- Matterhorn Glacier Trail (No. 26) — route, distance, elevation, time, difficulty
- Furiweg (No. 51) — route, distance, elevation, time, difficulty, access
- 5-Seenweg: Blauherd – Sunnegga — route
- Riffelsee trail: Rotenboden – Riffelberg — route
- Hörnliweg: Schwarzsee – Hörnlihütte — route, distance, elevation, time, difficulty, rules
- Zermatt Bergbahnen AG — access, rules, season and opening
- Matterhorn Glacier Trail (No. 26) — route, time, difficulty, season and opening
- 5-Seenweg: Blauherd – Sunnegga — route, difficulty, season and opening
- Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn — access
- Air Zermatt — emergency numbers
- Deutscher Alpenverein (alpenverein.de) — emergency numbers
- ch.ch (Swiss authorities) — emergency numbers
- SchweizMobil — route, track, distance, elevation, time, difficulty
- Gornergrat Bahn — route, distance, elevation, time, difficulty
- Gornergrat Bahn AG (gornergrat.ch) — season and opening
- Hörnlihütte — time, rules
- BRouter (OpenStreetMap) — track
- swisstopo — elevation