In the heart of the Tyrol, the group of Oëtztal reflects the tradition of warm reception of the Austrian mountaineers: each hut has been designed by brilliant decorators, and each hut-keeper will make you taste the tasty and tonic tyrolese meals. In this country of the "art de vivre", the summits will offer you great emotions: nearly two hundred peaks higher than 10,000 feet can be climbed in Oëtztal, and our tour will bring you on the top of four of them, of which is Wildspitze (12,369 feet), highest peak of Tyrol and second highest summit of Austria.
During our Oëtztal Glacier Trek, we will visit the spot where was found "Oëtzti", the Man of the Glaciers, the ancestor of all mountaineers. A superb programme, with 2 stages with light bagpacks (ascent and descent from the same hut). With fifteen years of experience of Tyrol, in Summer, Winter and Spring, we offer you the best services in the comfortable austrian mountain huts : nights in private bed-rooms, with of 2, 4 or 6 beds (no nights in dormitories), one liter of tea for your thermos bottle offered each morning by the hutkeeper.
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Access to Austrian Tyrol: Free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva Airport for the four first participants registered, contact us for further information. Your flights: the free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva airport will leave the airport very early on Day 1 (at 6.30 am). So, choose a flight landing in Geneva on the evening of the preceding day, and taking off after 6.30 pm on Day 7.
If you arrive in Geneva airport on the preceding day of the tour, we propose you a night in a motel close to Geneva airport, for 60 EUR extra charge, with free welcome in Geneva airport, and free transfer to your motel.
Access to Vent, starting point of the tour, by direct flights Paris - Innsbrück and Amsterdam - Innsbrück ( www.skyeurope.com ) + direct train Innsbrück - Oëtztalbahnhof (40 kms) + direct bus Oëtztalbahnhof - Vent (40 kms).
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Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Meeting Place - Vent, Post-Office, at 02. 00 p.m. From this typical Tyrolean village, height 6,220 feet, we follow Niedertaler small valley till Martin Busch hut, a beautiful hut built with granite stones, height 8,205 feet, our first stopping place. From the hut, nice wiew on Similaun peak, to be climbed in two days. Night by the hut. Duration of the stage: 3 hours. Difference of level: 1,980 feet up, 0 feet down.
Day 2: At dawn, going up through the slopes above the hut, the footpath leads us to Samoar's lake, 9,580 feet. We will lighten there our backpacks, to climb Kreuz Spitze peak, 11,342 feet, a super viewpoint on all our glacier trek route, on Tyrol Alps, and on the nearby Italian group of Ortler. Back to Samoar's lake, we have picnic, before to reach the Niederjochferner's glacier, a perfect field to study the way to walk safely, roped with other participants, on a glacier.
We reach Similaun hut, 9,905 feet, a gastronomic place (taste Apfelstrübel or Kaiserschmarren!), built on the Italian border, where we will spend two nights. Night by the hut. Duration of the stage: 6 hours and a half. Difference of level : 4,449 feet up (including 1,762 feet with light backpacks), 2,750 feet down.
Day 3: This third stage is quite short, allowing us to leave the warm duvets of the hut only by 7 am for breakfast. We will climb Similaun peak, 11,831 feet, with light backpacks. A easy ascent on Similaun glacier brings us to the height 11,500 feet, the point where begins the final ridge leading to the summit's cross. If the final ridge is not in perfect conditions, the guide will first guide up and down on the final ridge a roped party of four participants, and then pick up the four other participants for his second ascent on the ridge. Way down back to the hut for a relaxing afternoon. Night by the hut. Duration of the stage: 4 hours. Difference of level: 1,926 feet up, 1,926 feet down (with light backpacks).
Day 4: On the way up to the Hauslabjoch pass, 10,758 feet, we will make a short detour to visit the peat bogs site where was found Oëtzi, the famous mummy. From Hauslabjoch pass, we will go down more than 3,000 vertical feet till the Hintereis glacier and the tiny Rofen Ache bridge, through nice slopes on the North side. A short ascent of 15 minutes will bring us to the beautiful Hochjoch Hospitz, 7,913 feet. Night by the hut. Duration of the stage: 4 hours and a half. Difference of level: 1,247 feet up, 3,238 feet down.
Day 5: Maybe the most beautiful stage of this tour, with the ascent, in the cool air of dawn, on Kesselwandferner glacier, through huge glacial domes. We will leave our backpacks near the Oben Guslar Joch, to climb up the last snow slope leading to Fluchtkogel, 11,483 feet, nice wiew point on Gepätsch valley. Easy way down on Guslar glacier till Vernagt hut, 9,039 feet. Night by the hut. Duration of the stage: 6 hours. Difference of level: 3,602 feet up, 2,477 feet down.
Day 6: We will climb today the second highest peak of Austria, Wildspitze, 12,369 feet, with light backpacks. Way up on Klein Vernagt Ferner glacier, till Brochkogel Joch pass, 11,230 feet. From the pass, a flat traverse of nearly one mile will lead us to the final slopes of Wildspitze. The last ridge will be climbed roped with the guide, till the summit's cross. Fantastic wiew on the summits we have soon climbed: Kreuzspitze, Similaun, Fluchtkogel. We come back to Vernagt hut, where beer is so tasty!
Duration of the stage: 7 hours and a half. Difference of level: 3,461 feet up, 3,461 feet down (with light backpacks).
Day 7: We end this tour with the descent to Rofenhofe (6,726 feet), and then to Vent. Separation in Vent by 10 am. Duration of the stage : 2 hours and a half. Difference of level : 100 feet up, 2,674 feet down. End of the tour by 10 am in Vent.
Your IFMGA mountain guide will do everything possible to make this tour being a success. But, in high altitude, exceptional risks may exist: storms, avalanches, and your guide, responsible for your life, may change the programme of this glacier trek for your safety.
Member discount:
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Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
The price includes:
- guiding by a IFMGA mountain Guide, and all his expenses
- the following group equipment: radio linked to the relief organization, pharmacy, survival blanket, ropes, maps, compass, GPS, altimeter
- the loan of a mountaineering harness
- free roundtrip shuttle from Geneva airport for the four first participants registered
- lodging and half-board in the mountain huts
- one liter of tea for your thermos bottle offered each morning by the hutkeeper
The price does not include:
- optional insurances GENERALI / EUROP ASSISTANCE
- your lunchs
- your drinks in the huts (in Similaun hut, where water is not pure, you can buy mineral water, tea or beer)
- your personal expenses
- the personal equipment and the technical equipment required
- transfer from your residence to Vent, and from Vent to your residence
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