A week of GREAT SKIING awaits you!!This ski-tour makes you discover the remarkable glacier ranges of Vanoise and Gran Paradiso. In front of the Vanoise mountains, we follow the border of the massif of Gran Paradiso, facing the vertical Italian sides of Mont Blanc and sublime panoramas of the Alps. The GRAN PARADISO valleys and its magnificent protected hamlets, give access to a pioneer national park, the first one created in Europe in 1922, sanctuary of ibexes. In this mountains shaped by the glaciers, the passes which we cross are so many belvederes on the highest summits of the massif, their glaciers, and the tops of the quite close nearby highest ranges of Mont Blanc and the matterhorn-Cervin.
On skis, we will ascend and ski down the main passes and glacier summits, for example the summits of Grande Aiguille rousse (3482 m) and Galise (3343 m), the Traversière (3338 m), the Becca di Ghiassone, Truc blanc, Bassac Déré peaks and other Italian peaks, maybe also the Archeboc (3272 m) and will taste the pleasure of the big off-piste skiing in virgin and protected spaces.The key points of this raid /week ski-tour
• A drop in the heart of the massifs of Vanoise and Gran Paradiso (4061 m), several summits and glacier passes of more than 3 000 m.
• A magnificent panorama of glaciers in the scenery of the mythical Cervin and Mont Blanc 4810 m.
• A comfortable ski-tour, some days with light rucksacks just loaded for a day tour. LANDMARKS
Geographical situation
The National park of Vanoise is situated in Savoie, in the massif of the same name which is situated between the valley of Isère, the Tarentaise in the north side and the Arc valley Maurienne in the South. It adjoins the Italian National park of the Gran Paradiso along the border, with which it is coupled since 1972. Together these two national parks constitute the widest protected surface (1250 km ²) in Western Europe. the most spread too.
This ski-tour includes A LOT OF SKIING and is accessible to any experienced ski-touring skier or off-piste skier . Need to be also compulsorily in good physical condition.
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Level
Skilled skiers, able to ski off piste everywhere and in altitude (if you don’t know much about ski-touring, please ask first for our introduction course in Beaufortain or Val d’Isère day ski-tours ‘course)…
This ski-tour includes A LOT OF SKIING and is accessible to any experienced ski-touring skier or off-piste skier . Need to be also compulsorily in good physical condition.
To take advantage completely of your ski-tour, we recommend strongly to practise a sports activity developing the endurance : walks of 20 km with minimum 400 m OR running a 1 hour x 2 or 3 times a week.
Group
5 to 7 participants /5 persons/ clients minimum per group
Duration
6 days/ 5 nights (or 7 days/ 6nights upon demand, even better with 7 days)
Guiding by
UIAGM mountain guide of SAVOIE-Mont Blanc
Period
March, April, until mid-MAY
Dates: a tour every week from mid-mars to mid-may, we can do this tour also from Arolla to Zermatt, in 4 or 5 days only.
Price
730 € for Arolla-Zermatt (in 3 days/ 2 nights ) or 1290 € for Chamonix-Zermatt ( 6 days/ 5 nights) , with a minimum of 5 persons/ clients per group ..
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