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SWISS: 0041 279 573 311
Kevin's mobile: 07764 186 431
Winky's mobile: 07734 051 867
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Updated
Friday May 02, 2008
Alpine guiding courses are booking for 2008 now. Call or email for details, or send an enquiry using the
Booking & enquiries
form. Mont Blanc ascents (group bookings catered for!), the Matterhorn, Eiger, Alpine Introduction, Swiss 4000 metre peaks. Or if you have a general request
for Alpine Guiding, or need some advice, please let me know.
Accommodation in Saas Grund for Alpine clients is
in
the Hotel Schoenblick
www.ferienhaus-schoenblick.ch Saas Grund.
Visit the pages below for full details of our Alpine courses for 2008. Click on each button
Our philosophy on
Alpine Guiding ..........
Our Alpine Courses.....



Contact us for details on the following courses -
#
The Swiss
Giants Monte Rosa, the Schreckhorn,
the Eiger: Zermatt & Grindlewald.
# The Classic
4000's in Switzerland - Monte Rosa, the
Dom, the Zinal Rothorn, Ober Gabelhorn.
# The
Haute
Route from Chamonix to Zermatt: walkers route or
traversing the glaciers & passes.
# The 'Big Two'
- the
Matterhorn & the Eiger.
# An''Oberland
Trilogy' - the South Ridge of the
Eiger, The Jungfrau & the Monch
WInter & AUTUMN 2008: Snowshoe ascents of the
Allalinhorn, Breithorn, Weissmies, Strahlhorn, Fluchthorn, La Luette, Pigne
d'Arolla etc. All equipment provided, all inclusive, £850 per person or
reduced rates for groups. During the months of October & November the
weather is often settled, the mountains are empty, and we use the always-open
'Winter Rooms' in SAC huts. These are warm, have plenty of blankets &
wood-burning stoves for cooking & heating, (and enough wood to last the Winter).
Learning to walk with snowshoes is easy & great fun & gets you up into empty
mountains & stunning Autumn & early Winter scenery. Photos taken in
Saas Grund during November 2006 on the
'Home' page

3rd November 2005
Daniel Saakes & Jonas de Vries, using snowshoes to ascend the Pigne d'Arolla.
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27th September 2006
Peter & Dick Moon near the Brittania hut, Saas Fee, wearing snowshoes. The
Weissmies & the Lagginhorn in the background.

November 23rd 2006. Snowshoeing on the Breithorn ascent.

Cooking in the Mischabel 'winter hut'.
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On the North East Ridge of the Allalinhorn AD+
Photo courtesy of Robin Beadle, UIAGM Guide
North East Ridge of the Allalinhorn, graded AD+
Photo by Robin Beadle, UIAGM Guide.
Di Alger, just down from the Cosmiques Hut, and in front of the Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix.
A Haute Route party, somewhere out from the Vignettes Hut, Kevin far left.
Michael Yeatman, Kevin, & Julia Dalgleish on top of Mont Blanc in 2003.
Winky on the Southern Pinnacles, Liathach in Winter.
Snowstorm on the Breithorn.
Gearing up in the ice tunnel in the Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix.
Verran Townsend on the top of the Gran Paradiso in 2004.
Rodger on the Mittaghorn Via Ferrata, above Saas Fee.
Rodger Tatlock on the Weissmies
Rob Munro looking over to the Cosmiques Hut & Mont Blanc du Tacul, prior to our traverse of Mont Blanc on the 2nd June 2005
On the North East Ridge of the Allalinhorn AD+
Photo courtesy of Robin Beadle, UIAGM Guide
www.apartment-in-the-swiss-alps.co.uk
- over the 7 months of Autumn, Winter & early Spring, from
the end of September 2006 to the start of May 2007. From £220 per week, sleeping up to
6
people plus cots for very young children. Contact us for
more details about renting Haus Opal.
The photographs below were taken at the end of January 2005.
Click on each thumbnail for a bigger picture & description.
Apartment Haus Opal, Saas Grund
Kitchen area in Haus Opal.
Living room & door to South facing balcony.
Apartment Haus Opal, Saas Grund
Guiding PHILOSOPHY Alpine
Our philosophy in offering
Alpine Guiding is very much to work with you in designing an itinerary which
achieves your Alpine ambitions. We do not do 'off the shelf' courses which
follow a set and well trodden path. Doing something different every week keeps
the Guide interested as well! - and there is nothing so demoralising to a party
than a bored and disinterested Guide!
A lot of the fun is in the
anticipation and the planning of a visit to the Alps. With the advent of email,
it is easy to communicate with us to help plan the holiday. If you do not have
access to email, then a 'phone call or letter does just as well, its just a bit
less 'instant'.
Our job at this stage is to keep your ambitions under control, so that we do not
commit ourselves to an over-ambitious plan.
However, if you plan to spend some time with
a partner before your attempt with us on the Matterhorn or Mont Blanc, for
example, then we can give suggestions for the best acclimatisation plan, gear,
and 'mountainvisions'!
