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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

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Read our UPDATES page for latest availability & offers.

Our Alpine Courses.....

 

The Bosses Ridge on Mont Blanc, with the final slopes to the summit in the background, climbers clearly visible on the summit slopes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Ridley on top of the Swiss summit of the Matterhorn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rob Hammond, Lyndon Pinches & Winky using snowshoes, on the way to the Breithorn. November 23rd 2006. Mountainvision photo.

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

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.

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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'!