The hut was abandoned and burned down by the police in 2005, so nobody could use the hut in this dangerous place.

All that remains today are some small walls. As you can see in the first picture, even more of the hut has disappeared in the deep (picture of this morning).

The second picture is a zoomed out version. You can see the remains of the hut in the center. Everything below the hut used to be glacier.

100 meters higher the new Bäregg has been built, which opened in 2006.

Strange idea that at this place the history of mountain huts in Switzerland began.

Further pictures:

https://www.raonline.ch/pages/edu/cli/perma03aB01.html

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After reading the above article about the Stieregghütte, the first mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC, I wanted to see where this hut once stood. The hut was initially built in 1823 and was destroyed several times by avalanches. Each time it was rebuild at the same spot.

The last time it was rebuild was in 1952. The glacier has been retreating since 150 years and this means that the moraine do not have enough back pressure as it used to have, so the moraine started to collapse further and further. And so it eventually reached the hut.

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