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Mt. Blanc massive – Zermatt
HAUTE ROUTE Summer
7 days hiking in beautiful alpine views crossing cols and glaciers from Mt. Blanc massive to Zermatt with professional IFMGA mountain guide. This is a great experience to discover and enjoy mountains and its nature! Also for mountain heavy users!
We are meeting in Chamonix and we choose the best option possible about the route considering weather conditions. No previous experience about mountains needed but needs to be fit enough to walk six days up and down in the mountains, also in high altitude.
Price includes professional IFMGA mountain guiding, 5 nights in refuges with demi pension (breakfast and dinner) without beverages and alcohol. If needed, 1 night stay in hotel (2 persons/room) in Switzerland. All lift tickets. Transport back to Chamonix.
Group size is min 4 to max 6 persons / mountain guide.
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June 2021 (7 guided days) ask dates
September Contact us.
Location Alps France, Switzerland, Italy; Mt. Blanc massive – Zermatt
Price 1990 € per person including 7 days mountain guiding, accommodation demi pension (breakfast and dinner) without beverages and alcohol, transport back to Chamonix. Ask prices 4 - 6 days Haute Route
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Mont Blanc 4809 m
ITALIAN NORMAL ROUTE
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Legendary Mont-Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps. This trip we will summit Mont Blanc from the Italian side. Italian Normal route is more demanding than the corresponding route on the French side, mainly because no lifts or other aids are available to approach. In other words, the whole journey from the valley to the top is done on foot. The journey starts from the Val Veni Valley on the Italian side from Courmayer. Next is a 1,500 vertical ascent along the magnificent Miage Glacier to Gonella’s hut. The glacier is located relatively low, so the start of the journey is a moraine moved by a glacier, from where little by little our way continues to the glacier itself. The area is so huge that a handful of other groups who might be on the area disappear there completely invisible. There are another 1,800 vertical meters from the Gonella hut to the top of Mont-Blanc, part of the journey is almost a knife-sharp section of the Bionnassay ridge towards the Dôme du Gouter. The return takes place the same route down.
This trip requires good physical condition and therefore cannot be recommended as the first Alpine climbing peak. Before the actual Mont-Blanc peak, during the week you will be acclimatized either on the only peak fully on the Italian side over 4000 m in Gran Paradiso, or some other similar similar peak. Such a trip in itself can also serve as the first Alpine climbing peak without the Mont-Blanc peak itself. We do the acclimatization together and in a guided way, as this greatly improves the chances of summiting Mont-Blanc. The peak of Mont-Blanc is at an altitude of almost 5,000 m, so the altitude begins to affect progress no later than after reaching 4,500 meters.
Min 2 people, max 4 people. For a larger group, ask for more information. Peak days require 1 IFMGA / UIAGM mountain guide per 2 clients.
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June / July
September Contact us.
Location Departure and return to Chamonix
Price 2400 € / person
Includes IFMGA / UIAGM mountain guide for 6 days, 2 nights in a mountain hut during acclimatization and 2 nights in a mountain hut during summiting Mont-Blanc, one night in a valley between acclimatization and summiting. Accommodations have half board; overnight stay, breakfast and dinner. Does not include drinks or other additional purchases. Local transport during the trip. Necessary technical climbing equipment, but no shoes or clothing.
The guide may change the plan at the last minute due to group, weather and conditions. Please note that due to varying conditions, we cannot guarantee a summiting Mont-Blanc every time.
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Mont Blanc 4809 m
BIONNASSAY RIDGE
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Legendary Mont-Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps. On this trip, you will climb Mont-Blanc along the Dômes de Miage ridge to the Bionnassay ridge, from where the journey continues to Mont-Blanc. This route is demanding to the highest peak in the Alps. In addition to good fitness, it also requires rock climbing skills.
If you’re looking for a challenge for yourself, here it is. We climb the ridges mountain guide per customer ratio (1: 1) due to the technical complexity of the route. After acclimatization, begins the breathtaking Dômes de Miage ridge, from where we ascent to the Bionnassay ridge itself. On this ridge we climb cliff right at the morning, after from the top of Bionnassay you continue a good way towards Dôme de Gouter on almost like knife blade snow ridge. From the Dôme de Gouter, you will join the basic routes to the top of Mont-Blanc. On way Back, the aim is to desent on the Italian side, and return down a different route, but this also depends on the conditions on mountains.
This trip requires good condition and therefore cannot be recommended as the first Alpine climbing peak. Before the actual Mont-Blanc peak, during the week you will be acclimatized either to the only peak fully on the Italian side over 4000 m in Gran Paradiso, or to some other similar similar peak. Such a trip in itself can also serve as the first Alpine climbing peak without the Mont-Blanc peak itself. We do the acclimatization together and in a guided way, as this greatly improves the chances of topping Mont-Blanc. The peak of Mont-Blanc is at an altitude of almost 5,000 m, so the altitude begins to affect progress no later than after reaching 4,500 meters.
Summit days 1-2 people, 1 customer per one mountain guide. Acclimatization max 4 people / mountain guide.
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June / August / early September
Location Departure and return to Chamonix
Price 2600 € / person
Includes IFMGA / UIAGM mountain guide for 6 days, 2 nights in a mountain hut during acclimatization and 2 nights in a mountain hut during summiting Mont-Blanc, one night in a valley between acclimatization and summiting. Accommodations have half board; overnight stay, breakfast and dinner. Does not include drinks or other additional purchases. Local transport during the trip. Necessary technical climbing equipment, but no shoes or clothing.
The guide may change the plan at the last minute due to group weather and conditions. Please note that due to varying conditions, we cannot guarantee a summiting Mont-Blanc every time.
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HIKING the Alps in
Italy and Switzerland / Summer
Hiking 3 days and 2 nights in the most beautiful valleys in the Alps of Italy and Switzerland. This is the outdoor experience in the Alps where you don’t see other people most of the time when hiking, and you are able to enjoy silence, animals and beauty of the valleys. This trip is a good start, if you are interested for the longer hiking trips in the mountains. You don’t need previous experience about mountains, but you need to be fit enough to walk 6 to 8 hours, 10 km to 20 km and 1000 m-2000 m verticals every day.
Sleeping is in the good quality alpine huts, where we have a dinner and breakfast. There is possibility to buy a lunch packet from the huts.
Meeting in Chamonix.
Price includes professional IFMGA mountain guiding for 3 days, demi pension (dinner and breakfast) in alpine huts (without beverages or alcohol), transport from and to Chamonix before and after the trip.
Perfect trip during all summer months, July August mid-September. Ask for dates that suites for you.
Price 3-6 persons 510 € / per person (3 guided days).
For bigger or smaller groups, please contact us for details.
July – August – mid September
Location Alps Italy and Switzerland
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ALPINE CLIMBING
+4000m PEAKS
There is no greater feeling than getting on top of the mountain by your own effort. Come with us to make your first (or multiple) +4000 m high mountain summits in Saas-Fee and Zermatt area in Switzerland and Monte Rosa surroundings in Italy. From these locations there are various +4000m peaks to reach with different levels of mountain climbing.
You don’t need to have previous experience about alpine climbing, we are learning new skills during these 5 days. But what you need, is have a little bit adventurous mind and be fit enough for full day climbing. Meeting in Saas-Fee or Zermatt.
Price is including professional IFMGA guiding, accommodation in refuges or hotel with demi pension (breakfast and dinner) without beverages and alcohol, transport during the trip, harnesses and climbing helmet. Other climbing equipment is possible to rent.
Group of min.2 max 4, 2 persons / mountain guide
For bigger groups, please contact us.
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June 2021
July 2021
You can always request other dates, if these are not suitable for you.
Location Alps in Switzerland; Saas-Fee and Zermatt area or Monte Rosa surroundings in Italy.
Price 2290 € per person including mountain guiding, accommodation in refuge or hotel with demi pension (breakfast and dinner) without beverages and alcohol, transport back to Chamonix.
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