The name itself, Haute Route, is enough and all ski mountaineers immediately think of her, the queen of all traverses. This isn't the right moment to discuss whether it's the most beautiful, the Alps ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain Guide Nicolò Berzi. Multi-day traverses have ...

Mapped out for the first time in that 1862 journal, this “new High Level route” over the mountains between Chamonix and Zermatt would quickly become known by its French name: the Haute Route.

Finally, it’s the start of the famous multiday Haute Route ski tour, which traverses from Chamonix all the way to Zermatt. Today, the valley is home to 10 ski resorts, plus Europe’s highest ...