Ski-touring WEEK-END Val d’Isère, Advanced

Details of the program

This ski touring trip  invites you to discover the remarkable glacial massifs of Vanoise and the Big Paradise. In front of Vanoise, we follow the border of the massif of the Big Paradise and dominate abrupt(steep) paying(pouring) Italian of Mont Blanc to discover sublime panoramas on the Alps. Its valleys, in the magnificent protected hamlets, give access to a national park pioneer, the first one created in Europe in 1922, sanctuary of ibexes. In this massif shaped by the glaciers, the passes which we cross are so many belvederes on the highest summits of the massif, their glaciers, and the tops of the quite close nearby massifs : Mont Blanc and the Cervin.

On skis, you will skin up & ascend the main passes and the glacier summits of the massif, the summit of Galise (3343 m),the Grand Cocor, the Gros Cavall or the more challenging glacier peak Grande Aiguille rousse (3482 m), enjoying beautiful scenery and tasting the pleasure in middle of the big off-piste skiing area of Val d’Isère Parc national la VANOISE in virgin and protected spaces.During this trip, whatever your skiing level is, you will not only skin up summits and enjoy skiing down them with gorgeous ski runs, you will also be taught how to use properly you ski-tour skins (skins, ski crampons, heels lifts), how to do the going up kick turns, which kind of technique to use depending on the kind of snow and terrain. Our ski and mountains guides love teaching and will make you improve !!

NO STRESS : we will adapt the skinning up rythm to the one of the slowest of the group, and when skiing down as well : no stress !

We will see spectacular gorgeous dawns and sunsets as well as beautiful landscapes the Parc national de la Vanoise (a paradise for chamois and ibexes) !

Val d’Isère is a fantastic place for ski-touring, for any level of skills ! From the mountain tops, summits of Tignes and Val d’Isère we will have amazing views of famous  peaks like the Mont Blanc 4810 m, and Matterhorn (Cervin).