Climbing Alps
Matterhorn - Monte Cervino
Alps. Italy. Climbing Matterhorn (Monte Cervino), 4480 m, by Lion Ridge, from Italy
Altitude: 4480 m
Program category: Mountain Climbing
Difficulty: high (SPECIAL SKILLS ARE REQUIRED)
Duration: 8 days
Season: June - October
First climb: Edward Whymper, 14 July 1865
Program price from: 3500 Euro
Alps, Italy. Climbing Matterhorn (Monte Cervino), 4480 m. Classic climb of Matterhorn (4480 m) by the Lion Ridge from Italy
Terrible...? - No. Beautiful...? - Not again. Terribly beautiful mountain. The point from which the technical mountain climbing began as phenomenon. Matterhorn is located just on the border of Italy and Switzerland and widely accepted as one of the best and most interesting climbing objects in the World.Together with quite serious technical difficulty, climbing Matterhorn is by no means anything supernatural, it is quite hard but this mountain is extremely popular and normally overcrowded during the season. There are two most climbed routes on Matterhorn: Hornli Grat from Swiss (the easiest) and Lion Grat from Italy (more complicated technically). The both classical routes are perfectly equipped with stationary belay and comfortable huts, which makes climbing this mountain more accessible and safe.
This 6-day program "Climbing Matterhorn from Italy" is designed for people who have no illisions about what they can expect in the mountains. Climbing route of Matterhorn is technically difficult, requires a discipline, coherence, good physical form and possession of practiced skills in belaying and dealing with different types of mountain terrain. Regardless your climbing experience, we recommend participation in the Course of general physical preparation and passing MCS AlexClimb Cours of Mountain Technique (advanced level) before participating in this program. As acclimatization has a vital importance for climbing Matterhorn we recommend participation in easier climbing programs climbing Castor - Pollux, or Monblan or Breithorn before attempting to climb Matterhorn.
The First Principle of MCS AlexClimb
The First Rule, by which we are guided in the development of our mountain programs - is safety. Professional Guides lead the group, the highest quality certificated equipment and the most modern navigation equipment are used. This guarantees the highest possible level of your safety in the mountains, which is the most important side of our work. As for Kamchatka programs - in addition to our climbing safety issues, the armed ranger accompanies the group to protect participants from too close contact with the wild life.
Program Schedule
The AlexClimb Alps climbing schedule (Climbing Matterhorn - Monte Cervino 2024):
Guided ascent of Matterhorn - Monte Cervino (4480 m) by Lion Ridge from Italy
Difficult Climb, Top level
Day 1 - arriving to Milan, transfer to Chatillion, overnight in the hotel **
Day 2 - transfer to Cervinia, trekking to and overnight in the Abruzzi Hut
Day 3 - climbing the rocky slabs of Testa di Lione, traversing to the Col di Lione, climbing the ridge to the Carrel Hut, overnight in the Hut
Day 4 - climbing Matterhorn, descent and overnight in the Carrel Hut
Day 5 - descent to Cervinia, transfer to Chatillion, hotel accommodation **
Day 6 - extra day (sightseeing excursion to Genoa)
Day 7 - extra day (sightseeing excursion to Florencia)
Day 8- transfer to Milan, departure
Prices and conditions
The price of the "Alps. Climbing Matterhorn 2024":
From 3500 Euro - private program for 1 participant at the 1:1 guide/client ratio
The final cost of climbing Matterhorn depends on the following factors:
- your actual mountaineering experience (the possible program format depends on this),
- guide / client ratio - 1:1, 1:2, 2:1
- the need for additional services (porters, cook),
- dates of the program
You have to be ready for:
- Climbing the route of the high difficulty. The risk and physical load levels are high enough;
- Camping life in the field conditions;
- Cooking your meals by yourself while climbing mountains;
- Carrying a 20-25 kg backpack;
- Air temperature can be down to -20°C on the altitude higher than 3000 m;
Conditions: previous climbing experience, good physical form. Acclimatization program on Monblan or Monte Rosa is highly recommended before climbing Matterhorn, the Brief AlexClimb course of mountain technique is recommended.
The price includes: Professional mountain guide services, rent of the communal equipment (ropes, belaying and navigation equipment, cooking gear), hotel accommodation, transfers from the point of the beginning of the program to its end (Milan), using the communal basic medical kit, local registering and climbing permits, food for outdoor part of the program.
The price does not include: International or domestic flight expenses to and from the point of the beginning of the program (Milan), obligatory climbing insurance, rent of the personal equipment, food and drinks while being in cities, using the satellite phone.
Group capacity: 2
Guides: 2
Detailed conditions and limitations on the program "Alps. Italy. Climbing Matterhorn" can be read in the Offer section
Our Principles
AlexClimb Rule #1 - Safety First
From the very beginning of our activity, here nearly 16 years, the first Principle of work of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb is the Safety Priority. On the basis of this Principle all process of training is based, all programs and rounds are developed and carried out only within this main principle. We consider that at professional approach to development of programs, at personal discipline and correctly put motivation - occupations by mountaineering and rock-climbing are COMPLETELY safe. And from the return - all troubles and accidents in our sport come from nonprofessionalism, from ignorance or neglect by elementary standards of safety, from irrational motivation, from revaluation of own forces and opportunities. All these prerequisites we COMPLETELY EXCLUDE in our work - ours Rock-climbing, Ice climbing and Mountaineering are based on one Principle - the Safety Priority. In rock-climbing, mountaineering and ice climbing, the Priority of Safety of MCS AlexClimb-is your personal security and comfort irrespective of, than we are engaged - we train muscles and we work technology of the movement in the sports hall and on the rock climbing wall, we make the way through snowstorm to top or we relax on golden sand of the Caribbean beach after hot day of trainings on rocks. The Safety priority - the main credo of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb.
AlexClimb Rule #2 - Leave No Trace
Closely interacting with Nature, working with the active programs in mountains, woods, lakes and rivers, we perfectly understand the importance of carefull and respectfull bahavior towards the Nature, for its resources. From the very beginning of our outdoor-activity we adopted rules of Leave No Trace technique - the standard of behavior of the person accepted in all the civilized world in relation to environment and especially - to the wild nature. After all on the relation of people to the nature near which they exist, itself can draw dalekoidushchy conclusions on the relation of these people to... Where and as we didn't travel - we don't reserve any garbage, we try to reduce whenever possible our influence on environment to a minimum. We clear earlier zagryazyonny tourist parking of the left garbage, we take out and we take out to utilization places that to us other people left there. We consider that only thus, at personal individual consciousness of each citizen, each tourist, climber or autotraveller, we will be able to keep the nature surrounding us in its state, natural, suitable for life, - in it pledge of the healthy future for ourselves and our children.
