![]() Descend through the Menouve valley and reach the Pointier valley and the village of Praille. Reach the Champillon collar, passing through pasturelands. The hiker will have to walk down the steep path to Ollomon to stay overnight (the huts of By and Champillonare not finished yet)ĥ) By-Ollomont - Etroubles - Saint Oyen - Saint Rhémy Not far from here, you leave the easy track and continue along the route leading to Farinet house. The track passes through a stony area, an area full of massive rocks and reaches the pasture land of Thoules. Leaving the upper Val de Bagnes, the route continues overlooking the green meadows of Ollomont. After a steep climb, the slope becomes more gradual and the route reaches the Fenêtre Durand. Descent to the Lancer bridge, cross the Dranse river and climb again to Chanrion Hut.įrom the hut, walk downwards through pasturelands and cross the Grand Charmotane bridge. After a short descent, the itinerary regains altitude and reaches Pierre à Vire, Lia and Tsesette, where the track passes at the foot of the eastern rampart of the Grand Combin. Walk over a stone area in order to reach La Tseumette. Otanes collar is the highest point of the Combins tour (2870 m). You can also reach the hut over the Avouillons collar by crossing the glacier.Ĭlimb short but steep to the Otanes collar by walking along the moraine on the right of the glacier. Walking up the right bank of the moraine, you join the Fionnay path and the FX Bagnoud Hut at Panossière. Follow the winding path and reach the footbridge crossing the tumultuous waters escaping from the glacier. Walk SE alternatively up and down on a path to reach La Maye where the moraine crest is left to walk down to the old Corbassière Glacier bed. Continue eastwards among blueberries and pine-woods and reach the Brunet Hut (food available). The itinerary heads N-E and reaches la Treutse after an hour. Night in the Col de Mille Hut, new hut with 40 beds built in 1996.įrom the Mille collar, you enter the district of Bagnes, the largest of Switzerland. In Italy : yellow diamond shaped signs with the lettering TDC.įrom Bourg, pass by the Lorette Chapel, Creux de Ma, Boveire d'en bas, Le Coeur, Erra and continue through pasturelands high over the Entremont valley. In Switzerland : vertical signs with arrows and yellow shaped signs It is also possible to start from every stop of the tour. "The golden rule is to find out beforehand from the mountain guides about the chosen route and its current feasibility.The tour of the Combins is a six laps excursion and the start point is Bourg Saint-Pierre. "When the zero-degree-Celsius isotherm is around 4,000 metres above sea level, it is better to be extra careful or not attempt the route if in doubt," Wallis police said. The police issued a note of caution about setting off on such high-altitude expeditions. The Grand Combin massif has three summits above 4,000 metres, the highest of which is the Combin de Grafeneire at 4,314 metres. The serac fall happened at an altitude of 3,400 metres (11,100 feet) in the Plateau de Dejeuner section along the Voie du Gardien ascent route. ![]() The regional public prosecutor has opened an investigation "to determine the circumstances of this event", the police said. Other mountaineers were evacuated by helicopter. Two of them are seriously injured, police said. Nine mountaineers were airlifted to hospitals in nearby Sion and in Lausanne. They were a 40-year-old Frenchwoman and a 65-year-old man from Spain. "Two people died at the scene of the accident," Wallis police said in a statement. Seven helicopters with mountain rescue experts flew to the scene, finding 17 mountaineers split among several groups. Police received calls at 6:20 am (0420 GMT) reporting that mountaineers had been caught up in falling seracs - columns of glacial ice formed by crevasses - on the Grand Combin, a glacial massif near the Italian border in the Wallis region.
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