Category: Climbing & Mountaineering

Mont Blanc, in Italian Monte Bianco, is at around 4,805 m the highest mountain in the Alps and in Central Europe. On the Italian side above Courmayeur the modern revolving cable car Skyway Monte Bianco opens up the glacier world as far as the Punta Helbronner at 3,466 m, with…

The Brenta group is the only Dolomite massif west of the Adige and part of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park. It is famous for its bold towers and for the Bocchette via ferratas, which rank among the most classic in the Alps. The starting point is the fashionable resort of Madonna…

The Piz Bernina, at 4,049 m, is the highest peak of the Eastern Alps and the only four-thousander east of Monte Rosa. It lies in the glaciated Bernina group on the border between the Engadin and the Italian Valtellina. Famous is the Biancograt, an elegant firn ridge regarded as one…

The Eiger (3,967 m) is famous above all for its roughly 1,800 m high north face, one of the largest and most storied rock walls in the Alps. Its first ascent in 1938 and numerous dramas made it the epitome of extreme alpinism. From the valley near Grindelwald and from…

The Matterhorn, at 4,478 m, is one of the highest and at the same time the most famous mountain in the Alps. Its almost free-standing, pyramidal shape on the border between Swiss Zermatt and Italian Breuil-Cervinia is regarded as one of the most photographed mountain motifs in the world. The…

The Dolomites are a striking mountain group of the Southern Limestone Alps with pale dolomite rock, jagged towers and walls, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site since 2009. The highest peak is the Marmolada (Punta Penia, 3,343 m), the only significant glacier region of the range. Activities Hiking and mountain…