Marta's Monterosa Blog

I am passionate about the Alps. They are my heart's home and the place where I would like to spend the last day of my life. I have been a tourist in the village of Champoluc in the Italian Monterosa for all my life and worked as a tourist operator in this area since more than 15 years.

I believe in respect for the special environment of this place that you can find only here. We all gain by enjoying its beauty, while trying to make a minimum impact at the same time. Leave it for our children in the future!

I believe in respect for people who live here with their traditions and culture, language, and work, their genuine products and delicious wines. They open their homes for us, tourists and meet us as their guests, if we are able to open our hearts for them. I have a friend who is a hotel owner and he says that when stressed people from the city come to his place, he tells them to sit down and take a drink before they even begin to worry if they have a room. Perhaps, we can bring a little of their kindness and calmness with us on our way back to the city.

My philosophy is to give back a little of what the mountains and the people from this place have given to me and to my family through my work, to communicate my philosophy and my passion to those who follow me on the blog, and in my trips as a tour operator.

If you would like to visit Champoluc, Gressoney, Alagna or other villages in the Aosta Valley, trek or ski in the Monterosa, discover Sardinia or other places we offer, contact us.

Disappearing glacier in Zermatt

Posted: Jul 5, 2016
Categories: Zermatt, News
Comments: 0
Author: TheAlps

Gorner glacier

A new theme trail will be open in Zermatt in mid-July. It will present the fascinating history of the huge glacier, Gornergletscher.

The trail presents the changing history of the Gorner glacier that is the second largest ice field in the Alps. During the 3-hour-long hike you can observe changes brought by climate change in the Alpine area in the past 150 years.

The theme trail starts in Furi, where the tip of the glacier was located in 1869. From Furi the walk takes us southeast to the current tip of the Gornergletscher. Signs along the trail provide more interesting facts about the glacier and its history. Information is in English and German, although with QR code you can have additional text in Italian and French on your phone.

Read more information about the trail.

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