Matterhorn 7-day guided climbing tour

We will meet at the SkyWay base station and check the equipment. We’ll also have a short briefing before heading to the Veny Valley.

During the first day you will learn the basis of climbing. On the contrary, you can renew your current technical skills.

After that, we’ll decide whether to do. Depending on your level we can choose among doing some exercises in crags or tackling an easy long route.

Then, we take a lift to the Torino Hut (3.375 meters high) where we will dinner and spend the night.

After breakfast we’ll crampon across the Géant Glacier. We will first reach the Col Flambeau and then the Col d’Entrèves (3,517 m). From there, we’ll ascend an easy rocky ridge to begin the traverse of the sharp Aiguille d’Entrèves. The ridge gets increasingly sharper and more technical as we approach its 3604-meter summit. Then, we descend on the ridge which gets easier until we are again on the glacier. Once in the track we return to the Torino Hut to spend the night.

• Elevation gain: 350 meters

• Total time: 5-6 hours.

We’ll wake up early and set out for the “Giant’s Tooth” (Dent du Géant). Following an easy track we will reach a steep little couloir. This leads to the attack point of the wall which leads to the Tooth’s “Gums.” The terrain is mixed, with some snow and some easy stretches of rock.

The actual climbing begins once we reach the Gums, with a few demanding and exposed segments. And after exactly 6 pitches we will finally reach the 4013-meter summit.

The descent will be by abseiling down to the Gums, then along the normal route. We’ll return to the Torino Hut. From there we will take a cable car to the parking lot.

• Elevation gain: 650 meters

• Total time: 6-8 hours.

We start a new day meeting us in Cervinia. We will have the equipment checked. Then, a 4×4 transfer will take us to the Duca degli Abruzzi Hut (2,802 m). From here, the route winds its way up a series of slabs until Colle del Leone, where the final climb towards the summit begins.

After a few challenging stretches, we’ll reach the Carrel Hut (3,830 m), where we’ll spend the night and recover energies for the following hard day.

• Elevation gain: 1028 meters

• Total time: 4 hours.

We’ll leave the Carrel Hut around 4:30 am. The itinerary is intense and challenging all the way to Pic Tyndall. Another series of unique stretches, like the Enjambée and the Jordan Ladder, will lead us at last to our coveted summit (4,478 m).

The journey continues across steep and exposed terrain, and remains physically exerting and technically demanding until we reach the Hornli Hut, where a nice meal and some well-deserved rest await us.

• Elevation: vertical gained 650 metres; vertical drop 1.220 metres

• Total time: 8-10 hour

We’ll depart the Hornli Hut and head towards the Furggen Glacier, where a pleasant traverse will take us to Theodul Hut, in time to catch the cable car back to Cervinia.

• Elevation gain: 200 meters

• Total time: 2-3 hours.