As in previous years we ended the season by joining a Mountain Tracks group and some clients for a ski tour. This April we decided to tour above Zinal on what's known as the Imperial Haute Route, as it takes you past the 5 peaks making up the Imperial Crown. Two years ago we did a varient but so so different (you can see pictures from that tour here).
This time we started off in Zermatt and took a route heading back to Zinal (the high way). It was to be a week of some real gems - we summited two peaks over 4000m, with climbs of up to 1600m in a day, skied though some of the most spectacular glaciated terrain and traversed the knife edge ridge line of the Moming... Staying in a range of huts from the 'self-catered' Arpitetta, to the comfy Grand Mountet and the soon to be replace (thank-goodness) Tracuit.
A real gem of a tour... it'll be hard to top this one
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Stunning views above Zermatt |
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Some spectacular glaciers |
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Traversing the Moming Arete - heart stopping to say the least |