Trip
Details and Small
Print - Monte Rosa Peaks Traverse
Can
I do it?
This is a classic high alpine mountaineering
traverse with moderately difficult, glaciated peak ascents -
previous experience with crampons and ice axe (or an additional
training day before the beginning of this trip) as well as very
good physical endurance for up to 10 hour mountaineering days
with early starts every day are required. Since you will be
spending 5 days between 3500 meters (11500 ft) and 4550 meters
(15000 ft), you should be able to adapt well to altitude - previous
experience in high altitude is advantageous!
Optional Ascent of the Matterhorn via Hornli
Ridge:(two additional days):
The Matterhorn
ascent is technically much more difficult than the Monte Rosa
Peaks Traverse
and requires a client to guide ratio of 1:1.
The Hornli Ridge (Normal Route) is largely a rock scramble with
a few sections of grade 5.6. In the upper section the ridge
becomes steeper and fixed ropes facilitate the climb. For more
detail please refer to our Matterhorn
page.
Travel
to Zermatt:
The
three closest interntational airports with road distances, train
travel durations and fares:
Geneva:
Car 235 km, 2.30 hrs. Train: 3.45 hrs, SFR 90 / person, almost
hourly departures.
Zurich: Car 350 km, 3.30 hrs. Train: 4.5 hrs, SFR 120 / person,
almost hourly departures
Milan: Car 230 km, 3 hrs. Train 4 hrs, Euro 80, almost every
two hourly departures
Please note that if travelling by car, you will have to leave
your car on a commercial parking lot (fees from SFR 4 to SFR
7 every 24 hrs) in the village of Tasch, located about 10 km
before reaching Zermatt. From there, you have to either travle
by taxi or train (SFR 8, departures usually every 20 minutes
during the day).
Meeting
Point:
Day 1 at 5PM in our
hotel in Zermatt. We gladly assist in organizing any pre/post
trip lodging and airport transfers.
Climate,
Weather, Temperatures:
High
season for all mountaineering in the western Alps is mid-July
through August, mainly due to the stable weather that time of
the year. Day time temperatures can vary between 30C (86F) in
the valleys to -10C (14F) on clear mornings, when we start our
day from a high level hut.
Services
Included in the Total Price:
5
days guiding by an internationally (UIAGM) certified, multilingual,
mountain guide, all guide expenses, 4 nights lodging in dormitory
or rooms with bunk beds in the huts with dinner and breakfast,
2 nights double room in our hotel in Zermatt with breakfast).
Not
Included in the Total Price Are:
Any cost for land transportation, gondola
/ mountain train cost, rental equipment, however we can provide
you with technical equipment items for a small fee on request.
Beverages, alcoholic or not, lunches, any additional cost of itinerary
changes, particularly if participants should need another night
of lodging at the Monte Rosa Hut after the ascent of the Pointe
Dufour, should the guide have the additional day available to accommodate
such a request.
Budgeting for Cost not included
in the Trip Price:
Dinner in a restaurant in Zermatt
is not cheap, but also not outrageous. You can eat well for 30 -
40 SFR. A can of beer in the huts runs usually at 8 SFr, a bottle
of wine around 40 SFR, the gondola
to the Klein Matterhorn runs at around SFR 100 / person, the
train
from Rotenboden to Zermatt is about SFR 35. Holder of the
"Halbtax Abonement" (Half-Fare Card) of the Swiss
Railway, which is valid 1 year and costs about SFR 165 will receive
a discount of almost 50% on the gondola and mountain train prices,
which may be worth your while, if you intend to travel to Zermatt
by train.
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