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Mountainvision .................................................... Last updated 2nd May 2008................................................... Latest Availability for alpine 2008 courses.........
Monday 9th to Friday 13th June, with 5 days of guiding. Accommodation runs from Sunday to Saturday.
Monday 16th to Friday 20th June.
Availability as well in September, from Sunday 7th September onwards. Email for details. For other dates contact us for late availability.
BOOKING FOR the ALPS 2008 NOW ! We do not show a 'calendar' of courses, instead we can offer anything on any date, as long as that date has not been filled. So if you have a group of 4 who can only get together for a week to climb Mont Blanc in the third week of July, from midweek to midweek, for example, our flexible booking is designed to accommodate requests like this. May.... Snowshoe Alpine Mountaineering courses ►► Snowshoe Alpine Mountaineering in the Spring months of April to May. Empty mountains & empty huts; we use the 'Winter rooms' in the SAC huts, with wood-burning stoves & nobody else rarely in the mountains. £750 per person for 5 days of guiding & all expenses, accommodation & equipment.
Cooking in the Mischabel 'winter hut'. Enough chopped wood for the wood-burning stove to last a winter season - from mid September to the end of June. Even hut slippers are provided! This picture was taken on Thursday 20th September 2007, prior to an ascent of the Nadelhorn 4327 metres. The hut is at 3340 metres.
'Oberland Trilogy' ~ The Monch, Jungfrau & Eiger South Ridge, 5 days guiding, 4 nights in the Monchsjoch hut & 2 nights apartment accommodation, £1450.
Matterhorn
Ascent by the Hornli Ridge, 6 nights
Hotel & hut accommodation, 5 days guiding, £1250. 'Introduction to Alpine Mountaineering' 6 nights accommodation, 5 days guiding, £850 'Swiss 4000 metre Peaks' classic 4000 metre peaks in the Swiss Valais Alps, all - inclusive & 5 or 10 days guiding, from £950.
For the 2008 season we are based again in Saas Grund, a village in the Swiss Valais Alps. Easy to get to from Geneva airport - a two hour train journey to Visp, the nearest railhead to Saas Grund. I meet clients in Saas Grund & take them to their accommodation - the Hotel Schoenblick.
From the valley the choice of quality 4000+ metre mountains is huge - the Weissmies & Lagginhorn (& the Fletschhorn, at 3993 metres only 7 short of 4000 metres) on the East side; and the Durrenhorn. Hohberghorn, Nadelhorn, Lenzspitze, Dom, Taschhorn, Alphubel, Allalinhorn, Strahlhorn, Rimpfischhorn - the mighty Mischabel range - on the West of the Saas valley.
On the other side of the Mischabel mountain wall to the West of the Saastal vallay is the Mattertal valley - Zermatt & the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa, Ober Gabelhorn, Zinal Rothorn, Breithhorn, Castor & Pollux, the Weisshorn, Bishorn - these mountains are accessible by a 45 minute drive to Tasch, the train shuttle station for Zermatt. Chamonix & the Mont Blanc range is a two hour drive away up the Rhone valley. The Bernese Oberland & the Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau, Schreckhorn - & more, is within a 2 hour drive. The Gran Paradiso, the highest mountain wholly in Italy, and a good alternative if the weather is bad further North, is accessible in under two hours through the Grand St Bernard tunnel into Aosta.
BOOKING FOR the ALPS 2008 NOW !
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Panorama from the top of the Allalinhorn, above Saas Fee. The Strahlhorn, Dufourspitz on Monte Rosa, the Rimpfischhorn, Liskamm, Castor & Pollux, the ridge of the Breithorn, the Matterhorn, Dent du Herens, Mont Blanc in the far distance, Dent Blanche, Ober Gabelhorn & Zinal Rothorn.
............................................................................................................................. 2008 Bookings for the 2008 Alpine season are advancing. To ensure the dates you want - especially for July & August 2008 - now is the time to book!
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replaces the old E111 form. The card entitles UK residents to reduced cost
health care whilst traveling in most European countries, including France &
Switzerland. You still need adequate Alpine mountaineering insurance.
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