Ski tour Monte Rosa "Spaghetti Tour" light
Zermatt and Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa ski tours with up to 5 x 4000 m ski peaks and racy descents! These breathtakingly beautiful high-altitude ski tours on the largest glacier surfaces in the Alps in the Switzerland-Italy border region are the perfect end to the ski touring season. The Gniffeti Hut is also already open now and fresh powder snow keeps falling well into early summer. Despite the power of the sun now in spring, the quality of the snow on top of the cool glaciers remains for a long time. To be able to ski deep into this magnificent glacier landscape and also enjoy wonderful downhill runs is simply a privilege for all those who want to experience something special. The new Monte Rosa Hut is perfectly situated as a comfortable base camp in the middle of this vast landscape and enables us to make tours full of character to several 4000m peaks. Finally, we drive over the Findel glacier and the Stockhorn pass far down into the springtime greenery near Zermatt.
BERIE Plus points
- The most beautiful mountains of the Monte Rosa Group
- Powder snow and lots of sunshine
- up to 5 x 4000m summits with skis are possible
- The long downhill on the Border glacier
- Comfortable Monte Rosa Hut
- Italian Delicacies Gniffeti Hut
- View of Matterhorn & Co.
The facts
5 days/4 tour days; arrival on the 1st day in the evening with overnight stay in a hotel in Zermatt:
Requirement level: Advanced
You should be able to control your skis in all kinds of snow. Experience in the glacier terrain is an advantage. You should already have experience with easier ski touring (e.g. BERIE level I) in order to have no problems even with steep climbs. Condition for medium-heavy ski mountaineering in the high mountains from 4 – 6 hours in the ascent and enough breaks.
4 - 6 participants: CHF 1370.- per person
4 days guided ski mountaineering tours with certified mountain and ski guide UIAGM/IFMGA (5 days)
1 x overnight stay + breakfast/thermos tea refill/sandwich as lunch in a hotel in Zermatt in a double room with shower/WC
2 x overnight stay + half board/ thermos tea refill /sandwich as lunch in SAC Monte Rosa hut in the MBZ/camp
1 x overnight stay + half board/thermos tea refill /sandwich as lunch in CAI Gniffeti hut in the MBZ/camp
3 x table wine with dinner
Complete organization of the trip
Day 1: Meeting point in the late afternoon/dinner in Zermatt at the hotel. Meeting and dinner.
Day 2: Journey by cable car to the Klein Matterhorn and ascent to the Breithorn (4156 m). Dream descent through glacier crevasses at the Schwarztor to the Monte Rosa hut. (2883 m).
Day 3: Great ski tour to Ludwigshöhe (4341 m). Before the descent to the Gnifetti Hut (3625 m), we climb the Balmhorn (4167 m) and the Vicentpyramide (4215 m). During the aperitif and dinner, we let ourselves be spoilt with Italian delicacies at the Gnifetti Hut. Overnight stay Gniffeti Hut/Italy.
Day 4: Ascent to the Lysjoch and on to the highest hut in the Alps, the Cabanna Margherita on the Signalkuppe (4554m), still dozing in winter sleep. The dream descent back to the Monte Rosa Hut over the imposing Grenzgletscher glacier with its ice quarries under the north face of the Lyskamm is a memory burner. Overnight stay Monte Rosa Hut.
Day 5: Over the Stockhorn Pass and the Findel Glacier we climb up to the Torre di Castelfranco (3629 m) and return to the valley and Zermatt. From Riffelalp we take the train. Farewell in the afternoon at the station.
