Ejnar Fjerdingstad - Sep 10, 2013 1:46 pm - Voted 10/10
The colourand the horns make it look more like an Ibex. And of course there are no wild goats in the Alps! There are chamois (but they are antelopes), the horns here don't look like chamois horns, though.
rgg - Sep 10, 2013 2:17 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: The colourYep, I think you're right, it's very likely an Alpine ibex. The relatively small horns mean it's a female. I wasn't sure though, and so I simply named it a goat because I reckoned it's the more generic name than the species.
silversummit - Sep 10, 2013 2:39 pm - Voted 10/10
But the question is....Did she sign the summit book?
rgg - Sep 10, 2013 8:10 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: But the question is....There wasn't anything to sign up there. Only a small cairn proved I wasn't the first to climb Klein Vallüla, but that cairn was the only sign that someone had been there before. I saw no marks or traces of a trail. I wasn't really surprised by that, because Vallüla, right next to Klein Vallüla, is 170m higher and, after going up there later the same day, I learned that it was a more interesting climb as well.
As for the ibex, well, she didn't stay up there long enough to sign something. Shortly after I took this photo, she vanished. Probably she spotted me.
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