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Trip Itinerary – The Royal Crown

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Day 1: Meet in Zermatt, review gear and condition. (Hotel night)

Day 2: Ride the Gornergrat train to Rottenboden. Hike to Monte Rosa Hut

Day 3: Ascent of Monte Rosa 4,634m. Continue and traverse to Grenzgipfel. Down climb to catch the ridge leading to Zumsteinspitze at 4,563m. Continue to Marguarita hut , Signalkuppe 4,554m. where we spend the night.

Day 4: Traverse of Ludwigshohe 4,341m. Parrotspitze 4,432m, . Balmenhorn 4,167m. Corno Nero 4,321m and Pyramid Vincent 4,215m, descent to Gnifetti hut for the night.

Day 5: Ascent of Liskamm. 4,527m. (depend on condition. Either via the ridge or the Naze) night at the Quintino Sella hut 3,585m.

Day 6: Climb Castor 4,228m. climb Pollux down to Val D’ayas hut

Day 7: climb and traverse the Breithorn. traverse to Klein Matterhorn and descent to Zermatt

Day 8: Rest day in Zermatt

Day 9: Hike to Hornli hut. Reconnaissance of the bottom part of the Matterhorn that we will climb in the dark the next day.

Day 10: Matterhorn Ascent, Along beautiful day. Weaking up at 3:00 am it is a 10 to 12 hours day of interesting climbing to an awesome peak. Return to Zermatt

Day 11: Extra day.

along the Royal crown ridge

Difficulty:

This tour require a strong level of fitness, mountaineering experience walking with crampons, scrambling and easy rock
climbing.

Tour dates:

Any time between July 15 – September 15

Note:

The ratio for this tour and the Matterhorn ascent is  1:1

Tour for bigger group can be easily organize, but the  tour  and Matterhorn ascent remain with 1:1 ratio. Extra guides will join us.

Price:

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traversing the royal crown above Zermatt

Services Included:

  • Professional guide fee & expenses
  • 4 nights Hut fee with breakfast and dinner
  • Transport during the tour
  • Lift to Klein Mattehorn
  • Train from gornergrat to Zermatt
  • Group technical equipment
  • Radio, first aid kit

Services Not Included:

  • Hotel in Zermatt
  • Meals in town
  • Personal gear
  • Transfer to and from Zermatt
  • Pic-nic lunches, snacks
  • incidentals

The Royal Crown – 12 peaks, 10 days

  • Trip Itinerary – The Royal Crown
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