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We have collected some of our guests comments and photos here. Read about some special travel experiences. The Danes Conquest of Champoluc Småland i Champluc The Germans and the guide Berggrens in the Alps
From the melting snow and the retiring glaciers on top of the Monte Rosa massif, rivers formed the well-known valleys of this area. From the Middle Ages people have been building their villages here and today those villages are the famous resorts of Monterosa. Starting from at the feet of the Matterhorn, we find Cervinia and Zermatt, going northeast to Saas Fee, and going southeast to Champoluc, Gressoney, Alagna and Macugnaga.
We started our web site in 1996 with the aim of informing about the Monterosa area; the mountains and the villages surrounding the second biggest mountain chain of Europe. We also include suggestion of tours both in winter and in summer to explore and enjoy the mountains and we offer our expertise to help you travel here with us.
Thank you to all the guests going with us to Monterosa! You give us so many joyous feed-backs: great slopes, good food, kind people in the hotels. We have collected some of your pictures and comments here. Read about some special travel experiences. Below you can click the links to see photos and read about some specific travel experiences.
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Ski mountaineering, randonee and ski touring with us!
Guided ski mountaineering or randonee tours in Monterosa for all levels, from beginners who want to learn the randonnée technique, to advanced glacier ski mountaineering. Authorized local guides only. We help you with the whole package, including skirent, guide, accomodation and transfers. From one day tour to one week.
Read more about ski mountaineering and randonee in Monterosa here.
The third edition of Polvere Rosa is now available. Polvere Rosa 3 contains freeride itineraries that you reach with the ski lifts, as well as less known ski touring areas such as Palasina, Pian Coumarial and Lazoney.
Ok, I was exaggerating about how nice it was to just lay down and feel the warmth of spring sipping into my bones for a week ago…. The weather in Monterosa this winter has been gorgeous regarding to the sun hours and the plus degrees. We had a hot January, with an end of 20 minus for a couple of weeks, but then again, at the end of February we were thinking probably we should pack and go home earlier. Flowers, 15 plus in the village and at least 20 in the sun. Aosta had higher temperature tham Palermo, in Sicily…. And then yesterday snow and today powder. Again. And sun and blue skies. The Alps. Monte Rosa in the background and I woke up with a feeling that season is not ended yet. Take your skis and get off to the mountain. Read More »
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Ok, what are you supposed to do when you have 16 happy guests coming to Monterosa for skiing 3 days and the snow has not come yet? You worry like crazy and think how the crap you are going to manage this. Then as a miracle, you are driving your rental car to Champoluc and white flakes fall slowly to the road – and you don’t even have any chains…. But this is amazing and all is going to be fine at the end! Well, it is not... Read More »
It is Halloween or even better in Italy it is called ”The Dead”. It is the holiday when people are allowed to leave their jobs for a couple of days to go home and honor their dead ones. An old tradition, still living in the soul of many. I was making my trip to check some new hotels and places in Italy for coming travels with my guests, and had totally forgotten about the celebration that was expected. Except for the fact that nearly everything this time reminded me of dead, witches and phantoms. Read More »
It is Halloween or even better in Italy it is called ”The Dead”. It is the holiday when people are allowed to leave their jobs for a couple of days to go home and honor their dead ones. An old tradition, still living in the soul of many.
I was making my trip to check some new hotels and places in Italy for coming travels with my guests, and had totally forgotten about the celebration that was expected. Except for the fact that nearly everything this time reminded me of dead, witches and phantoms.
Sardinian sea, the step seems long. But in the morning we woke up at Rifugio Guide di Ayas, Lambronecca, 3420 m, and at 9 pm we drove in our car in a ferry to Olbia. The differences in the Italian landscape are huge, as everyone knows. The mountains are big and real and the Mediterranean is always present not only because of the blue sea that surround nearly all the borders of my country, but also because it is the cause of the good food and wines, and of the spirit of the people, even the people living in the Italian Alps. Read More »
The differences in the Italian landscape are huge, as everyone knows. The mountains are big and real and the Mediterranean is always present not only because of the blue sea that surround nearly all the borders of my country, but also because it is the cause of the good food and wines, and of the spirit of the people, even the people living in the Italian Alps.
I have had a pretty busy day – taking care of my guests, a little climbing and biking, driving the minibus on the tormented roads of the Italian hills, finding good restaurants and having lots of fun in the meantime. When I finally went to my room at midnight I was to bed in seconds, tired but happy. It uses to be at this moment of my day as a guide in my own travel business, that I can relax and perhaps overview the spent hours mostly with a smile in my heart. ... Read More »
Did you know that the Italian Riviera is also a part of the Alps? The Maritime Alps go down to the Mediterranean sea, and you will believe it, when you are in Finale Ligure. First of all, the landscape of Finale reminds more of the mountains than of the sea. Big cliff walls, green woods and wild birds. Ancient villages clinging at the mountain sides, and it is a place for sheep and wild mushrooms. Moreover, the people that use to travel to Finale are mostly climbers and downhill bikers from all over the world. you will rather find outdoor gears than swimming suits. ... Read More »
“After an espresso at Atelier Gourmand, the classic Italian bar right under the first ski lift in Champoluc (1568), we took three lifts to Colle Sarezza (2700). Then we skied for five minutes, put on our skins and started the ascent towards the lakes of Pinter and Perrin – where I have been many times in the summer… But this time it was ALL different. First; I have never walked up-hill with skins. Second; the ground was covered with white glitter. Third; there is no avalanche-risk in the summer. So; yes, I was excited! It was easy for me to put on the skins and understand... Read More »
There is a way to beware a feeling of being out in the Wild even in the crowded Alps and on skis: put skins under them and climb to unspoiled parts of the mountain. It is sufficient to go where you don’t have any lifts and you are suddenly drowned in silence again. thealps crew tried this new experience last day and the effect was of total LOVE! And the realization that some of the muscles you use to do this sport are not the same you use when you ski downhill, not even off pist. Good to know! This activity needs Very Good Condition, even more because... Read More »
I came home yesterday and still cant believe that I was going around at the beginning of February with 18 degrees of temperature. Climate in Northern Italy can be real nice, especially because it had been snowing until Sunday in the same place! I am in Finale, a secret spot for the mainstream of tourism, and this is only a positive thing! Finale is composed by 3 different parts: on the beach – Finalmarina, the town Finale Ligure and the citadel from the Middle Age, when people did not go to the beach if not to fish, occasionally – Finalborgo. And the surroundings are also Finale. Difficult to understand? Don’t try with Google because they cant help! Read More »
For all of you who are looking for powder in the Alps, I have bad news – there is no powder! We are still waiting for a huge snowfall, but it seems like we have to be patient. it is indeed a spiritual experience to slide down in the weightless white substance coming from the sky and taking away all sounds and noises! But the good news are that we have fun and some real great experience in the mountains anyway. The sun in the tiny air at 3000 meters above the see makes miracles! The rifugio Guglielmina... Read More »
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TRAVEL TO MONTEROSA WITH US
Walkabout in Monterosa A long week-end walking between four valleys, from Cervinia to Alagna. Cheap flights with Ryanair. From € 700 per person.
Bed & Breakfast Pankeò is a true, genuine alp hotel.
The owners will welcome you as if you were their own guests, and let you taste local products at their rich breakfast table. It is located only five minutes from the lift, but still in a quiet and peaceful part of the 17th Century village of Valtourneche. You can reach both Cervinia and Zermatt within this ski area. If you are looking for excellent skiing and experience the true way of living in the Alps, this is the place for you. There are still rooms left in February!
The Mezzalama Trophy is approaching that magical moment which will give the go-ahead to the four hundred teams signed up, 1200 people who will be going on a forty-two kilometre adventure, touching the sky above the Monte Rosa massif. "The conditions of the glacier this year will favour experienced mountaineers: both on Castor and the Naso del Lyskamm there is a lot of ice, also the new section of the Colle della Fronte, to climb up onto the crest of the Naso, is very steep and will require crampons and fixed ropes" says Adriano Favre, the technical director of the competition. He stresses the importance of security: "This will be a tough Mezzalama. The route is in perfect condition, and the hot weather we have been having has not affected the glacier, but the climbs at the Castore and the new variant of the Naso del Lyskamm will require crampons. The walls are completely covered with ice. All the teams must show that they are made up of true mountain-climbers: on April 30 it will not just be a matter of athletics; ability to get around in the mountain environment will make all the difference. I’m asking the teams to arrive prepared, to make sure they don’t experience technical problems with grip and with moving forward in roped groups with crampons on their feet”.
The International Mountain Summit (IMS), is taking place this year from October 30 to November 7, is celebrating its partnerships with leading organisations that work to protect mountain regions.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Carpathian Convention, the Alpine Convention and the UIAA are all supporting the weeklong event in Brixen/Bressanone, Italy.
UNEP will organize the IMS congress day on "Sustainable Tourism in the Mountains". Other timely issues on the agenda include: Handling World Heritage Sites the right way, women and mountaineering, the right to risk and rescue from the world’s highest mountains.
See Carlos blog with very intersting pictures and information during his top tours and trekkings in the Spanish mountains and on Monte Rosa's Dufour Spitze 4643 meters peak.
Per Alpes is a new book/guide presenting 20 circular trekking tours around the most beautiful mountains and across the borders of the Countries of the Alps.
"the Alps, for their variety and diversity, none-the-less constitute a single, united region (...) the ideology (...) of the Alpine Convention (...) aims to preserve the region's unsurpassed natural and cultural heritage while enhancing its social and economic development for the benefit of existing populations".
trekking is an excellent way of making tourism in the spirit of the Alpine Convention and for all of us who care for the genuinity of the environment we visit.
View our films about Capanna Margherita, heliski to Zermatt and ski on the Breithorn. Click here