Table of Contents

About the authors 8-9
Overview of routes 12
Introduction 15
About this book 19
Hut conventions 21
Advice for trekkers 21
When to go 23
Safety in the mountain 23
Words of greeting 24

The Treks

Trek 1 Grande Traversata delle Alpi: GTA - Gillian Price 26
Trek 2 Tour of the Queyras - Alan Castle 38
Trek 3 Tour of the Oisans - Kev Reynolds 48
Trek 4 Tour of the Vanoise - Kev Reynolds 58
Trek 5 Gran Paradiso Alta Via 2 - Gillian Price 68
Trek 6 Tour of Mont Blanc - Kev Reynolds 78
Trek 7 GR5: Through the French Alps - Paddy Dillon 88
Trek 8 Tour of Mont Ruan - Hilary Sharp 102
Trek 9 The Walker's Haute Route - Kev Reynolds 112
Trek 10 Alpine Pass Route - Kev Reynolds 124
Trek 11 Tour of the Jungfrau Region - Kev Reynolds 136
Trek 12 Tour of the Matterhorn - Hilary Sharp 148
Trek 13 Tour of Monte Rosa - Hilary Sharp 158
Trek 14 Tour of the Rätikon - Kev Reynolds 170
Trek 15 Across the Eastern Alps: E5 - Gillian Price 180
Trek 16 Stubai High-Level Route - Allan Hartley 194
Trek 17 Zillertal High-Level Route - Allan Hartley 204
Trek 18 Dolomites Alta Via 1 - Gillian Price 214
Trek 19 Dolomites Alta Via 2 - Gillian Price 224
Trek 20 Julian Alps Traverse - Roy Clark & Justi Carey 234

Appendix A Useful contacts 246
Appendix B Glossary for trekkers 247

Index

About the Author

Kev Reynolds, this guide's contributing editor, first visited the Alps in the 1960s. He has returned there almost every year since, to walk, trek or climb. A true authority on all things Alpine, he has written over a dozen guides to the region. The contributors to this guide - Justi Carey, Alan Castle, Roy Clarke, Paddy Dillon, Allan Hartley, Gillian Price and Hilary Sharp - all share just as much enthusiasm for, and experience of, Europe's premier mountain range.