How to get there:
The mountain summit is located at 76.21.499 north, 26.06.101 west.
This is a GPS measurement at the summit. Route description:
The mountain has a good route up the south-west ridge.
One starts from the glacier and first climbs the scree to reach
a smaller top (1930 m). From this top, the ridge
starts (at 76.20.944 north, 26.08.150 west), first
descending about 60 m, then climbing. At the end the ridge widens
and leads to a snow field, the rocky summit is just past the snow. Comments:
The ascent on May 21. 2000 was a first ascent. A cairn was built
at the summit. The snow pattern on the mountain facing our base camp
together with the long, characteristic ridge line (back) made this
mountain resemble a giant walrus, thus the name.
Resources:
Images
Hvalrossfjeld
from the saddle between Pap Bahn (left) and the "hump".
My cairn
at Hvalrossfjeld (the view is north-west).
Hvalrossfjeld
The ridge of ascent to Hvalrossfjeld. The "hump" in the
foreground.
The final steps
to the summit of Hvalrossfjeld (the view is south).