Climbing in Rätikon

The Rätikon appears in this catalog as a context for sustained, technical multi-pitch climbing on steep limestone. The raw edit of Cédric Lachat’s full one-day, no-fall lead of WoGü (350 m, 8c) places the camera on the pitches themselves: you see every lead, every transition, and the partner work with Nina Caprez as belayer. That footage emphasizes pacing, linking steep pitches, and rope technique on hard sport multi-pitches in Rätikon limestone.

Swissway to Heaven broadens the view: while it travels through several Swiss areas, the film interleaves the Rätikon with other walls and situates contemporary ascents alongside voices from earlier generations. Contributors such as Beat Kammerlander and Claude Remy provide historical perspective while climbers like Lachat and Nina Caprez demonstrate how hard, multi-pitch sport and big-wall ethics continue to coexist in the region.

The Rätikon’s geography—an Alpine range at the transition between major Alpine sectors—frames these films as studies in long routes where route-finding, linking sustained sequences, and partner management matter as much as single-move difficulty. For climbers interested in how to climb and film a hard multi-pitch, these videos are practical, technique-forward documents of the Rätikon style.