Ferrata delle Guide di Gressoney
Italy
Getting there
Parking
Route start
- Length
- 310 m
- Via ferrata
- 1 h 40 min
- Approach
- 10 min
- Descent
- 20 min
- Vertical climb
- 10 m
About this route
Ferrata delle Guide di Gressoney is one of the most demanding protected routes in the region, rated E/F and reserved for strong, technically accomplished climbers. Although it is only around 300 m long, it packs in many overhanging walls and sustained sections — on free rock it would offer pitches around grade 6 — and is split into three colour-coded stretches (red, yellow, black) of rising difficulty. Its signature feature is a Tibetan bridge some 40 m long, hung roughly 60 m above the ground, with sweeping views over Gressoney-La-Trinité and the nearby Monte Rosa massif. The approach is short, about ten minutes from the square behind the church at Tâche, but the climbing itself is an intense, physical battle. Inaugurated in 2001 by the local mountain guides, it is best attempted between early June and late October.
Highlights
- Sustained overhanging walls at grade E/F
- 40 m Tibetan bridge high above the valley
- Panorama over Gressoney and the Monte Rosa massif
Route map
- Start
- Parking
Weather
Forecast for the start of the route
Friday, October 30
Partly cloudy
- Feels like
- 6° / 0°
- Precipitation
- 0 mm
- Wind
- 8 km/h Gusts 19 km/h
- UV index
- 2
- Sunrise
- 07:05
- Sunset
- 17:18
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