Switzerland - Europe
Your advantages at a glance:
- Well prepared and acclimatised on the Piz Bernina, the easternmost four-thousand-meter peak in the Alps
- original huts in a breathtaking high mountain world
- Passing the Piz Palü, one of the most beautiful three-thousanders in the Alps
- in Grisons we are at home, here we know every stone!
This tour can be booked as a private tour on any date!
Guide
Certified Mountain Guide IFMGA and Snow Sports Instructor with Federal Certificate of higher vocational Education und Training
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Price
CHF 1295.- | (per person / 3 Participants) |
Including guide fare and guide fees.
Exclusive overnight stay and half board, touring tea and all transport costs.
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Bernina Runde, 12. bis 17. Juli 2015
Requirements
AD assez difficile
Mountaineering experience, safe walking on crampons, climbing experience in the 2nd difficulty level, condition for ascents between 6 to 7 hours. The attendance of a basic course rock and ice is presupposed.
Program
Piz Glüschaint, Dschimels, Piz Sella, Piz Bernina, Piz Palü.
This varied week takes us through one of the most beautiful tour areas in the Alps. With the Piz Bernina we also climb the easternmost four-thousand-meter peaks of the Alps. Enjoy combined tours in rock and ice and relaxing moments in the well-run huts, including antipasti, pasta, vino rosso and fine espresso! Please start early with the training for these tours, we move every day in high alpine terrain and always well over 3000 meters above sea level.
Scheduled tour program
Monday: Meeting point at 2.00 pm in Surlej at the valley station of the Corvatschbahn. Take the aerial cableway to the middle station and climb to the Coaz Hut. Dinner together and discussion of the tour week.250 meters in altitude, ascent time approx. 1 hour, total walking time approx. 2 1/2 hours
Tuesday: Sightseeing tour to the Piz Glüschaint, 3594 m. The ascent is via the Vadret da Roseg and in easy climbing with places on the second degree of difficulty on the north ridge to the summit. 1000 meters in altitude, ascent time approx. 4 hours, total walking time approx. 7 hours
Wednesday: ascent of the Jimels, 3508 m, crossing to Piz Sella, 3517 m. Descent to the Sella Pass and over the upper Serscen glacier to the Marinelli hut, 2813 m, on the Italian side of the Bernina massif. 900 meters in altitude, ascent time approx. 4 hours, total walking time approx. 7 to 8 hours
Thursday: Ascent to Rifugio Marco e Rosa via the via ferrata and ascent of the Piz Bernina, 4049 m, via the normal route (Spallgrat). Airy ridge climbing and deep views included! Overnight at Rifugio Marco e Rosa. 1300 meters in altitude, ascent time approx. 6 hours, total walking time approx. 8 to 9 hours
Friday: Great crossing of the Piz Palü, 3905 m, one of the most beautiful and most photographed mountains in the Alps! Descent to the mountain inn Diavolezza. Completion of the tour week and return home. 500 meters in altitude, ascent time approx. 5 hours, total walking time approx. 8 hours