Haute Route Chamonix-Zermatt

1. Stage
Aiguille des Grands Montets – Glacier d’Argentière – Glacier du Chardonnet – Col du Chardonnet – Fenêtre du Saleinaz – Plateau du Trient – Cabane du Trient

2. Stage
Cabane du Trient – Col des Ecandies – Val d’Arpette – Champex – Verbier (Taxi) – Cabane du Mont Fort (Bergbahn)

3. Stage
Cabane du Mont Fort – Col de la Chaux – Col de Moming – Rosablanche – Cabane de Prafleuri

4. Stage
Cabane de Prafleuri – Col de Roux – La Barma – Lac des Dix – Cabane des Dix

5. Stage
Cabane des Dix – Col de la Serpentine – Pigne d’Arolla – Cabane des Vignettes

6. Stage
Cabane des Vignettes – Col de l’Evèque – Col du Mont Brulé – Col de Valpelline - Zermatt

The details on the tour (distance, duration, altitude and depth) also include the Orsière-Verbier-Mont Fort stretch that is covered by taxi and cable car.

We recommend to book a mountain guide who knows well the place.

We recommend:

• Ski touring equipment: touring ski-boots, touring skis with touring bindings, ski poles, skins, crampons
• Climbing harness
• Backpack, shovel, probe
• Avalanche transeiver
• Warm weatherproof clothing
• Warm gloves and warm hat
• Sunglasses and sunscreen
• Warm drinks
• Snack (high energy foods such as chocolate, dried fruit etc.)
• Food (energiereiche Nahrung wie Schokolade, Trockenfrüchte)
• Bring everything needed for a multi-day ski tour from hut to hut

The Haute Route is a long tour during which you spend several days high up in the mountains a long way from civilization. Calm weather conditions, experience in the high mountains and careful preparation are essential.

• Always go with a mountain guide on a tour
• Stay up-to-date with the weather and avalanche status: Snow Report
  More information is available in the Swiss avalanche bulletins (www.slf.ch)
• Always maintain visual contact with accompanying persons
• Use key sections and extremely steep slopes individually
• Never go into a wild game protection zone (these are marked and one will be fined)
• Always switch the avalanche transceiver (LVS device) unit to transmission
• Always carry a shovel and a probe
• Pay close attention to daily atmospheric warming and continually re-evaluate the situation

Tip: “Be searchable”. Equip yourself with an additional RECCO rescue reflector*. Whether summer or winter. Available in our Online-Shop or our information desk.
*The additional reflector does not replace an avalanche beacon.