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| Rooms in February at B&B Pankeó in Cervinia!
Bed & Breakfast Pankeò is a true, genuine alp hotel.
The owners will welcome you as if you were their own guests, and let you taste local products at their rich breakfast table. It is located only five minutes from the lift, but still in a quiet and peaceful part of the 17th Century village of Valtourneche. You can reach both Cervinia and Zermatt within this ski area. If you are looking for excellent skiing and experience the true way of living in the Alps, this is the place for you. There are still rooms left in February!
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| Monte Rosa Tour Trekking 10 days, we help you on your wayThe Monte Rosa Tour is one of the most well known trekking tours in the Alps. It is challenging with some high passes and peaks at over 3000 meters, but it can also be accomplished by parts, if it is too long or if you would like to hike only some of the trail.
Here we present it in its total length and beauty: Just start where you want and you will be back to the start point when you have completed the tour.
We can help you arrange the whole tour or parts of it! Call or e-mail us: +39 347 9988404 marta@thealps.com
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| SUPERALP!5 - The sustainable crossing of the Alps The Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention organises from 4th – 12th July 2011 the fifth edition of SuperAlp!, the sustainable crossing of the Alps.
For the fifth year SuperAlp! crosses the Alps linking different territories, issues and cultures aiming at improving the knowledge of the Alpine Convention,
that recognizes the Alps as a whole and unique territory.
A group of journalists belonging to world’s top publications will cross the Alpine arc for nine days utilising sustainable means of transport and trying out the various links that make up the chain of alternative mobility to private cars. The group will travel from France to Italy across Switzerland and Austria by train, bicycle bus and on foot.
The 2011 edition lets participants discover the conditions of alpine glaciers, one of the most evident indicators of the effects of climate change. It also intends to make this crossing an occasion to communicate the Alpine Convention and its Protocols as tools for the sustainable development of the Alpine region, easily transferable also to other mountain regions of the world. read more ... |
| Trofeo Mezzalama - the white Marathon above 4000 m. "Rope up! Safety first"
The Mezzalama Trophy is approaching that magical moment which will give the go-ahead to the four hundred teams signed up, 1200 people who will be going on a forty-two kilometre adventure, touching the sky above the Monte Rosa massif.
"The conditions of the glacier this year will favour experienced mountaineers: both on Castor and the Naso del Lyskamm there is a lot of ice, also the new section of the Colle della Fronte, to climb up onto the crest of the Naso, is very steep and will require crampons and fixed ropes" says Adriano Favre, the technical director of the competition.
He stresses the importance of security: "This will be a tough Mezzalama. The route is in perfect condition, and the hot weather we have been having has not affected the glacier, but the climbs at the Castore and the new variant of the Naso del Lyskamm will require crampons. The walls are completely covered with ice. All the teams must show that they are made up of true mountain-climbers: on April 30 it will not just be a matter of athletics; ability to get around in the mountain environment will make all the difference. I’m asking the teams to arrive prepared, to make sure they don’t experience technical problems with grip and with moving forward in roped groups with crampons on their feet”.
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| The International Mountain Summit to tackle urgent issues |
| Spanish Mountain BlogSee Carlos blog with very intersting pictures and information during his top tours and trekkings in the Spanish mountains and on Monte Rosa's Dufour Spitze 4643 meters peak. read more ... |
| Per Alpes: 20 trek tours by Alpine ConventionPer Alpes is a new book/guide presenting 20 circular trekking tours around the most beautiful mountains and across the borders of the Countries of the Alps.
"the Alps, for their variety and diversity, none-the-less constitute a single, united region (...) the ideology (...) of the Alpine Convention (...) aims to preserve the region's unsurpassed natural and cultural heritage while enhancing its social and economic development for the benefit of existing populations".
trekking is an excellent way of making tourism in the spirit of the Alpine Convention and for all of us who care for the genuinity of the environment we visit. read more ... |
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