Late season deal – Ski Touring
news Martina Palm 04 Mar 2010 No Comments
April Ski Touring Adventures
Chamonix Experience has the below ski touring adventures scheduled for the month of April. All departures are guaranteed to run and still have spaces available.
Haute Route 29th of March to 4th of April & 19th to 25th of April
The classic high mountain traverse between Chamonix and Zermatt. 7 days guided ski touring with 5 nights in mountain refuges. For off-piste skiers with previous ski touring experience.
Ski Mont Blanc 20th to 25th of April
Ski Touring in the Mont range finishing with ascent of Western Europe’s highest peak. 6 days guiding with 2 nights in mountain refuges. For expert skiers with previous ski mountaineering experience.
news Martina Palm 19 Mar 2009 No Comments
Ski Touring Adventure in Chamonix 23-28 March
We have a very good snow coverage this winter season and fantastic conditions for ski touring. In fact I have never during my eight years in the Chamonix valley seen so much snow in the Berard valley on the back of the Aiguilles Rouges. Chamonix Experience Ski Touring course running the 23rd to the 28th of March still has places available. 6 days ski touring around Chamonix and the Mont Blanc range with a full qualified UIAGM mountain guide. You can join with or without accommodation and lift pass.
Price all incl. is 1850€.
news Martina Palm 19 Mar 2009 No Comments
Haute Route Ski Tour
Starting in Chamonix, the heart of the Mont Blanc range and ending up in Zermatt in the shadow of one of the most famous mountains in the Alps, the Matterhorn, the Haute Route is a journey that every ski touring enthusiast should undertake at least once in their lives.
It is one of the most spectacular high mountain itineraries in the world, winding its way over remote alpine passes, traversing glaciers and through Alpine villages. There are constantly changing views of Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Grand Combin and Monte Rosa.
We allow seven days for our guided Haute Route ski trip. This allows for a warm-up day with your guide in Chamonix before setting off, and plenty of slack in the schedule should bad weather intervene. This also makes for a much more relaxing and enjoyable trip. Our Chamonix – Zermatt Haute Route itinerary follows the standard route via Verbier. You will be staying in refuges for all five nights of the trip, so you will only be carrying your personal gear plus food and water required for each day.
Contact the Chamonix Experience office (+33 4 50 54 09 36) to book!
photo-blog Martina Palm 03 Feb 2009 No Comments
Winter course calendar
Great to see some more snow coming! Chamonix Experience has programmed the following courses to run. You can book the Off-Piste course, the Ski Touring course and Ski Mont Blanc with or without accommodation. Please enquire for price.
Off-Piste course 26th to 31st of January. 6 days guiding and instruction. For anybody who has just started skiing off-piste and wants to learn technique as well as mountain awareness.
Crevasse rescue course 31st of January. 3 places left.
Avalanche Awareness course 4th of February. 5 places left.
Off-Piste course 9th to 14th of March. 6 days guiding and instruction. For anybody who has just started skiing off-piste and wants to learn technique as well as mountain awareness.
Off-Piste course 23rd to 28th of March. 6 days guiding and instruction. For anybody who has just started skiing off-piste and wants to learn technique as well as mountain awareness.
Ski Touring course with a 4000m summit 23rd to 28th of March. 6 days guiding with 1 night in a refuge. For anybody who wants to start or has just started ski touring and wants to learn technique as well as mountain awareness and explore the Mont Blanc region.
Haute Route 29th of March to 4th of April. 7 days guiding with 5 nights in mountain refuges. For anybody with previous ski touring experience.
Ski Mont Blanc 20th to 25th of April. 6 days guiding with 2 nights in mountain refuges. For expert skiers with previous ski mountaineering experience.
news Martina Palm 21 Jan 2009 No Comments
Snow in Chamonix 29th of October!
It is snowing outside our office window in Argentiere in the Chamonix valley! I just went for a drive up to Le Tour (1450m) and took these photos and according to the Compagnie du Mont Blanc website there is 40cm of fresh snow at the Aiguille du Midi (3842m). Winter is definitely on its way!
With that in mind you should take a look at Chamonix Experience winter activities. We will continue with our 6 day Off Piste Course, which has proved successful over the years. This all-inclusive course is an ideal start for you who are in the beginning off your off piste career and want to learn better technique and mountain safety and experience some world class off-piste skiing.
New this year is our Winter Mountaineering course, also all-inclusive, which consists of six days of ice climbing, mixed climbing and mountain awareness in Chamonix and its surroundings.
Some more news to check out is our 2 day Vallee Blanche itinerary, two days guided off piste skiing and an overnight in a high mountain refuge. And for you who would like to venture further in the backcountry we have some great trips and ideas. Check out the Bernese Oberland ski tour! No more demanding than the Haute Route but so much quieter. We also have a general Ski Touring page that will give you some inspiration and ideas of other areas in the Alps that offer fantastic ski touring.
news Martina Palm 29 Oct 2008 No Comments
Ski Tour Bernese Oberland
New in our programme for winter 2009 is the Ski Tour of the Western Bernese Oberland. This tour is much quieter than the famous Haute Route, the huts are very good quality and the scenery amazing! It is equally as challenging as the Haute Route, therefore some previous ski touring experience is required to join this trip. (more…)
news Martina Palm 21 Jul 2008 No Comments
Winter adventures & courses 2008/2009
We have posted dates and prices for most Chamonix Experience courses and adventures winter 2008/2009. Please check out the various pages for our Off-Piste course, Haute Route, Ski Touring course and Winter Mountaineering course as well as our daily activities such as ski the Vallee Blanche, Crevasse Rescue course and Avalanche Awareness course.
We are pleased to be able to offer an all-inclusive package this winter for our week-long programmes based in Chamonix. We will be using the very comfortable Yeti Lodge here in Argentiere. We already use this luxury chalet for our summer Mont Blanc courses.
news Martina Palm 06 Jul 2008 No Comments
Chamonix – Zermatt Haute Route
The Haute Route is a legendary ski tour – departing Chamonix and traversing the Alps to finish off in Zermatt in the shadow of the Matterhorn. It is a very popular ski touring route, and last week we had a full group of six, led by French Guide Greg Sauget. It was an extremely international group, with Edson from Brazil, Sarah from Australia, Daniel from Israel, Tony from New Zealand, Hannes from Iceland and Arne from Norway. Despite very mixed weather, they made it all the way across to Zermatt and had some beautiful days of great touring and skiing.
photo-blog elizabeth 15 Apr 2008 No Comments
Ski Touring Gran Paradiso 4061m
Brothers Alex and Fabian did an Introduction to Ski Touring week with their Chamonix Experience guide Dave Etherington. They spent four days ski touring and exploring different areas of the Chamonix valley to finish off with a ski tour of the Gran Paradiso in Italy. In the Val Savarenche there are no lift so you have to skin from the valley floor. They went up to the Chabod hut where they stayed the night prior to the ascent.
photo-blog elizabeth 15 Apr 2008 No Comments
