Snow / ski
Perhaps the best-known and most iconic ski touring route in the world...and with damn good reason!
location
Chamonix, France
length:
7 days
ANNUAL leave needed:
5 days off work
fitness:
Moderate
"It was more than perfect! Everything was beautifully organized and guided""Thank you, you are the best guide!!"
Erin, Haute Route
Start:
Chamonix
season:
meals included:
Breakfast and dinner
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# of people:
2-6
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accomodation:
Mountain huts
PRICE (from)
DEPOSIT
"It was more than perfect! Everything was beautifully organized and guided""Thank you, you are the best guide!!"
Erin, Haute Route
Thanks, and again thanks for your leadership, your skills, and for being a good fun guy to be with for a week!
Andy, Haute Route
Special thanks to our wonderful leader. Thank you for your constantly caring for all the unseen details, for your mountain wisdom, expertise, patience, and just-plain-delightfulness.
Deborah, Haute Route
"We could fully enjoy every minute – thanks to the professional, friendly and safe guiding.""should definitely be on every skiers bucking list!"
Marianne, Haute Route
I highly recommend him to guide you. I’m already trying to figure out when we can get back for another trip with them!
Victoria, Haute Route
This is a jam-packed, unforgettable, ski touring adventure. Touring mostly on glaciers, you will be surrounded by unrivalled beauty and spectacular views for the duration of the 7 days. From the renowned French capital of adventure, Chamonix, you’ll traverse the crest of the Western Alps across to the Wallis glaciers of Switzerland, observing as the architecture and dialects change, before descending the foot of the formidable Matterhorn into Zermatt. It’s a Transalpine adventure-of-a lifetime. Oh, and guaranteed to be packed with culinary delights, too.
Note that the route in the video is different to the one below but we can customise to fit
Day 1: Chamonix – Refuge d’Argentière
On the first day we’ll get our ski legs warmed up and into action for the week as we skin up to the Argentiere hut.
Elevation gain: 700m
Vertical loss: 700m
Day 2: Refuge de Trient
We wake up to a beautiful sunrise at the hut and ready ourselves for an exciting day ahead. Skinning over towards the Col du Passon and descending the Col du Chardonnet and eventually crossing onto the Trient plateau in Switzerland where we’ll bed down for the night.
Elevation gain: 1100m
Vertical loss: 300m
Day 3: Refuge Prafleuri
The morning is marked out by one of the most epic descents of the trip, down the Trient glacier and then east for a crampon climb up the Col des Escandies. We’ll then transfer over to the lift system in Verbier and make our way up the Col de Mamin and over the Glacier Plafleuri to the Plafleuri refuge where we spend the night.
Elevation gain: 900m
Vertical loss: 2700m
Day 4: Cabane de Dix
Another early start (it’s hard not to when the mountains are this beautiful!), and we’re skiing over the Col des Roux before a long, winding descent takes us past the Lac des Dix and onto the Cabane des Dix - home for the night!.
Elevation gain: 800m
Vertical loss: 660m
Day 5: Cabane des Vignettes
Another spectacular day. We’ll kick off with a long ascent to the summit of the Pigne d’Arolla (the highest point on the route) where we’ll be rewarded with views of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. A steep and epic descent then takes us to the famous Cabane des Vignettes, perched on the edge of a mountain face.
Elevation gain: 894m
Vertical loss: 728m
Day 6: Cabane Bertol
Few days will beat this one. This is alpine ski mountaineering at it’s very best, and it finishes up at another spectacularly perched mountaintop hut. We enjoy a hearty meal before our last day tomorrow.
Elevation gain: 1098m
Vertical loss: 853m
Day 7: Cabane Bertol – Zermatt
One final epic day of mountaineering takes up over cols and glaciers before finishing in Zermatt for celebratory drinks and a farewell dinner.
Elevation gain: 610m
Vertical loss: 2270m
Options:
This spectacular tour can be done in many different ways. Adding more peaks or changing tour route with other huts. Please contact us for more information.
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Breakfast and dinner included
Fully qualified, local, highly experienced IFMGA Mountain Guide
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This shouldn't be your first rodeo. You should have some ski touring experience and normally have completed at least one hut-to-hut or multi-day tour. You should be an excellent off piste skier who is confident and efficient in all conditions. You should be quite happy with kick turns on slopes over 35 degrees. We have an intro and advanced course if you're not there yet.
You should be fit for this one, able to hike and tour 8 hours per day and repeat the next. You'll need to be able to skin up to 5 hours with 1,100 meters vertical gain per day moving at a steady pace climbing roughly 400 meters per hour.
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price
£ 1,485.00 GBP
DEPOSIT
£ 150.00 GBP (Deposit)
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