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.

Zermatt on Lonely Planet’s Top10cities 2015

Posted: Oct 22, 2014
Categories: Zermatt, News
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Zermatt will celebrate the anniverstary of the Matterhorn ascent in 2015.

Lonely Planet, the web portal for advanced travellers, placed Zermatt on its exclusive list - Top10cities unmissable in 2015. The reason is simple: next year will be full of events to celebrate the ascent of the Matterhorn peak.

Zermatt has won the 4th place on the Lonely Planet's list, next to Washington, El Chaltén and Milan. The so-called “Swiss Quinn” or “Swiss Diva” of mountain destinations will be celebrating 150 years since the first alpinists made the ascent of the Matterhorn. In 1865 English mountaineer Edward Whymper successfully led a group of seven to the summit (4478 m). Only four persons survived when the rope broke while going down.

Celebration will go on all year round. Starting with the July opening of the newly renovated Hörnlihütte – Hörnli Hut at the foot of the Matterhorn at 3260 m, where alpinists can rest before the final ascent. Among others celebrations you can find an open-air theatre in the village presenting “The Matterhorn Story”, the historical event of the 1865.

It is a great occasion to visit Zermatt and experience other attractions like the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, Europe’s highest cable car that enables you to admire 14 glaciers and 38 mountain peaks over 4000 m! Or take a romantic, old-fashioned ride with 19th-century cogwheel railway to Gornergrat. There are always a lot to do both in summer- and wintertime in Zermatt.

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