Swiss Alps - Monte Rosa Spaghetti Tour7 Days Demanding Trekking around Switzerland's Highest Peak This trip takes us around the biggest massif in Western Europe, consisting of 12 peaks over 4000m including the Dufourspitze (4636m) - Europe's second highest peak. It is a truly spectacular long distance trek that is very challenging and provides memorable scenery as you make your way at high altitude through Italy and Switzerland. Although Monte Rosa just falls short of the height of Mont Blanc, the ridges and peaks of the Monte Rosa massif are on average far higher than those of its rival to the west. In addition, many consider these the finest mountains and valleys in the whole Alpine range. This trip will take you to high alpine regions in Italy and Switzerland, that have been cut off to an extent from life on the plains below, and have maintained their traditions and cultures. The Italian region is that of Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont and our route passes through some villages incorporating a Walser settlement with Germanic origins, whose ancestors first settled in the mountains around 1000AD. These people settled in many alpine regions, notably around Alagna and Macugnaga and still preserve the basics of their culture. The Swiss part of the trek is centred in the Wallis canton where our route takes us high above the Saas and Matter valleys where the relatively new Europaweg links with the long-established Hohenweg making it possibly the world's longest balcony path from Saas Fee to Zermatt. The Monte Rosa Spaghetti Tour provides a great variety of terrain, ranging from well made wide forest tracks to narrow single-track footpaths, scree slopes and glaciers. You will need to have a high level of fitness, good sense of balance and the ability to walk on rough terrain. This is a fairly non-technical excursion apart from some glaciated sections. There are also some steep sections up to 40 degree on snow, which can be technical on black ice. Our route is nontheless a physically demanding wilderness trek with a considerable amount of ascent and descent walking around 6 hours each day with some extra long days.following exposed paths and boulder fields but you will be rewarded with some of the most breathtaking sights in the Alps. Trip highlights include mountain refuges with spectacular views of the surrounding mountains including the new Europahutte and Rifugio Guglielmina (2880m) - once Europe's highest hotel, high alpine meadows, steep forested valleys and impressive snow-capped peaks with views to some of the Alps highest peaks such as the Dom (4545m), Matterhorn (4478m) and the Weisshorn (4596m).
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