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This guidebook describes the finest high-level ski tours and ski mountaineering routes in the Western Alps in areas as diverse as the Ecrins, Vanoise, Haute Maurienne, Gran Paradiso, Mont Blanc, Valais and Urner Alps. Includes the classic Haute Route, the ski mountaineering traverse through the Alps between Chamonix and Zermatt.
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Ski mountaineering guidebook to the Western Alps including the classic Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt, tours in the Ecrins, Vanoise, Haute Maurienne, Gran Paradiso, Mont Blanc, Valais and Urner Alps. The European Alps offer some of the finest and most accessible ski mountaineering in the world. A combination of magnificent and varied terrain, an enviable snow record, excellent public transport, unrivalled hut system and long ski season make them a focus for mountaineers and skiers throughout the world. Volume 2 of this Alpine Ski Mountaineering series covers the Central and Eastern Alps. The routes described will provide a lifetime's ski mountaineering for the average skier, with rewards and challenges for all levels of ability.
IGN 1:25,000
Meije Pelvoux TOP 25 2436 ET
Tignes - Val d Isere - Haute Maurienne TOP 25 2633 ET
Les Trois Vallees TOP 25 3534 OT
Chamonix Massif du Mt Blanc 3630 OT
St Gervais 3531 ET
Didier Richards 1:50,000
Ecrins - Haute-Dauphine
IGC 1:25,000
Grand Paradiso la Grivola Cogne
Cervino-Matterhorn e Monte Rosa
Kompass 1:50,000. Sheet 86
CNS Ski Maps 1:50,000. Sheets: 282S, 283S, 284S.
CNS 1:25,000. Sheets: 1344, 1345, 1346, 1347, 1348, 1329, 1326
Landerskarte Der Schweiz 1:50,000. Sheets: 283S, 293
Landerskarte Der Schweiz 1:25,000. Sheets: 1327, 1346, 1347, 1328, 1329, 1347, 1348, 1349
July 2013
Readers should be aware that seasons for individual alpine huts are determined by the people who manage them and may change. The suggestion of a hut as a stop on a ski tour in this guide does not guarantee that the hut will be open (although most huts have winter rooms open and available throughout the winter as explained in the guide). You should always check ahead, by ringing the numbers given in the guide or by looking at the appropriate Alpine Club website. These websites have the most up-to-date information on the huts:
Bill O’Connor is a mountain guide with extensive winter ski mountaineering experience and is an author of books to trekking in Nepal and Lakeland Scrambling.
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