Breithorn, 4164m April 3 2011 (Alpes)

After checking the bad quality of the snow covered we did not realy know what to do before going to Swizertland on Monday. Sunday was going to be another sunny day and we wanted to do the most of the days. Breithorn was out of our plans, but it arose like a good choice to take contact with the heigh before going to Swizertland and maybe the snow ´d be better.

So we drove to Cervinia to take the cableway till 3450m. The first part consisted of going along the pistes untill the breithorn coll. Behind us the views was absolutely wild.

Once got the coll, the Breithorn Plateau opens to us. This is one of the most clasical landscapes of the high Alps due to the ease of reaching it.


Despite it, the place deserves to be famouos.


The last 300m are the slope from the plateau to the summit.


It´s easy enough to get there without so much experience in winter mountain. This is considered the easiest 4000 of the Alps, and in my opinion is definetly true.

The summit is the boundier between Swizerland and Italy.



As we did not expect the snow quality was also bad. In this case so firm and irregular made us to be carefully in the first meters of the slope.

Later snow was lightly better.

The last serac before taking the pistes of Cervinia and complete almost 2200m of vertical descent.

Summing up, the day was ideal to prepare ourselves for the next days in Swizertland and visit so clasical zone.