{"id":948,"date":"2026-06-07T17:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/monte-bianco-skyway\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"monte-bianco-skyway","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/monte-bianco-skyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Bianco &#038; Skyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">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 a panorama of the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest summit of the Alps (around 4,805 m)<\/li>\n<li>Skyway Monte Bianco, revolving cable car up to 3,466 m<\/li>\n<li>Panorama over the highest peaks of the Western Alps<\/li>\n<li>Starting point for serious high tours above Courmayeur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Elevation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">around 4,805 m (highest in the Alps)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Cable car<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Skyway Monte Bianco to Punta Helbronner (3,466 m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Starting point<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Courmayeur (Aosta Valley)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Border<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Italy\u2013France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> By car through the Mont Blanc Tunnel to Courmayeur; Skyway base station in Entr\u00e8ves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Skyway year-round; high tours July to September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Skyway payable (please verify), online tickets recommended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> The ascent by cable car is safe; any climb is a serious, glaciated high tour only with a mountain guide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>Choose clear days and travel early, mornings have the best visibility<\/li>\n<li>Dress warmly at 3,466 m, the altitude is noticeable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>Mont Blanc, Italian Monte Bianco, is, at 4808 metres, the highest peak of the Alps and of Western Europe, a mighty granite massif that touches three countries. Its myth begins in 1741, when the two Englishmen Richard Pococke and William Windham travelled into the valley of Chamonix to marvel at the glaciers, and thereby founded Alpine tourism. The summit itself was conquered only in 1786 by the physician Michel Paccard and the mountain guide Jacques Balmat. A little later it was also climbed by the Geneva naturalist Horace B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure, who advanced the scientific exploration of the mountains and is often regarded as the founder of mountaineering.<\/p>\n<p>On the Italian side, above the Aosta Valley near Courmayeur, the Skyway Monte Bianco cable car today leads in bold architecture up to the Punta Helbronner at around 3460 metres. The rotating panoramic cabins turn the ascent into a slow all-round view over the sea of glaciers of the massif. Where generations of alpinists climbed laboriously, the visitor now glides in a few minutes into a world of firn and rock, across to those ice streams that Pococke and Windham were once the first to marvel at with European eyes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/wanderschuhe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hiking boots \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-huettentour\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hut-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/huettenwandern-einsteiger\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hut hiking for beginners \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Mont Blanc, italienisch Monte Bianco, ist mit rund 4.805 m der h\u00f6chste Berg der Alpen und Mitteleuropas. Auf der italienischen Seite \u00fcber Courmayeur erschlie\u00dft die moderne Drehseilbahn Skyway Monte Bianco die Gletscherwelt bis zur Punta Helbronner auf 3.466 m mit Rundumblick auf Matterhorn, Monte Rosa und Gran Paradiso. Highlights H\u00f6chster Gipfel der Alpen (rund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":973,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,40,31],"citadela-item-location":[69],"class_list":["post-948","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-gipfel-berge","citadela-item-category-klettern-bergsteigen","citadela-item-location-aostatal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/948\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}