Description

Your guide will teach you how to use crampons that allow you to walk on ice as well try ice climbing with ice axes: your first steps as a mountaineer!

Details about your glacier hike:
- Level required: Good physical condition required (being able to hike at altitude for a full day). No mountaineering experience is required.
- Minimum age: from 12 years old.
- Duration: 1 day
- Meeting point: Montenvers train station in Chamonix
- Options: book your discovery hike as a group.

Program of the day in detail:
🚅 Ascent by train to the top station of the Montenvers at 1930 meters above sea level (30 minutes)
🚶 Down by the cable car to reach the glacier. Here the ice is covered with stones. Walk an additional 20-30 minutes to reach the ice. Get equipped with crampons then walk towards the Moulin (an ice canyon that has been naturally created by a river and ends where the water disappears and plunges into the heart of the glacier.)
🏔️ Depending on the conditions, the guide can then let you try ice climbing and / or continue the hike towards the junction of the Leschaux glacier. This leaves about an hour on the glacier before taking the way back.

⏲️ Count approximatively 5 to 6 hours of walking. This itinerary is given as an indication. It can be modified to suit the conditions of the glacier and your level.

Additional info

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• Spoken languages :EnglishFrench

Prices

In a group from 4 to 6 people : 140€ per person

With a private guide (1-4 people) : 495€ per guide.