Selected ski tours
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Grosser Aletschhorn 4198 m
Oberaletschhütte Berner Alpen / Alpes bernoises Switzerland
- Length of ascent6 km
- ascent1700 m
- duration6-8 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦♦
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
Grosser Aletschhorn is lonely 4000 in the middle of the Berner Alps in Switzerland over the Oberaletschgletscher and the hut of the same name. From the top views of the Wallis Alps, including the Matterhorn.
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Strahlhorn 4190 m
Britannia Hütte Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent9,4 km
- ascent1250 m
- duration6-8 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦◊◊
Strahlhorn (Britannia Hütte, Walliser Alpen) is a classic glacier tour from Britannia Hütte. From the Adlerpass saddle, you usually go skiing to the top. If there is less snow then on the crampons with an ice axe. Ideal lookout peak. To get off Saas Fee, take the Metro to the "window" at 3460 m to the Hohlaub Gletscher and start the ascent after a short ride.
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Alphubel 4206 m
Britannia Hütte Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent10 km
- ascent1450 m
- duration7-10 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
ALPHUBEL (Britannia Hütte, Walliser Alpen) is seemingly lighter 4000vka, but over are dangerous glacial cracks. Ski alpinists can also go from the Saas Fee ski area, most not far from the cable car station Langfluh .
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Fluchthorn 3795 m
Britannia Hütte Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent6 km
- ascent1000 m
- duration3-4,5 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦◊◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦◊◊
Fluchthorn (Britannia Hütte, Wallis) is an optimal acclimatization tour for 4000 above Saas Fee and can be managed at the same time as the Strahlhorn.
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Rimpfischhorn 4199 m
Britannia Hütte Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent12 km
- ascent1259 m
- duration7-10 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦♦
Rimpfischhorn is the most demanding ski tour of Saas Fee - Britannia Hütte (Walliser Alpen). Dangerous big cracks and at the finish climbing terrain.
Selected Mountain huts
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Oberaletschhütte
Berner Alpen / Alpes bernoises Switzerland
2 tours in region2640 m.n.mCapacity 58 bedsOpen April-May
The classic SAC (Swiss Alpinist Club) mountain chalet above the glacier Oberaletschgletscher in the Bernese Alps. The beginnings of demanding glacial skitours - Grosser and Klein Aletschhorn, Beichpass, Belalp, Breithorn, Gredetschjoch, Nes...
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Britannia Hütte
Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
5 tours in region3030 m.n.mCapacity 134 bedsOpen march-may
Excellent hut over Saas Fee skiresort (Wallis Alps), half an hour from the cable car. The starting point for five glacier tours - Fluchthorn, Strahlhorn, Rimpfischhorn, Allalinhorn and Alphubel
