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Planning to climb Capanna Margherita and wondering whether to sleep at Capanna Gnifetti or Rifugio Mantova? Here’s how the two huts differ in altitude, approach, acclimatisation and effort.

The mountain is not ours: it is a living, fragile and precious environment. Respecting it means experiencing it with greater awareness.

Mountain insurance: what to check before a Monte Rosa ascent, including helicopter rescue, cancellation, repatriation, personal liability, Switzerland and mountaineering cover.

I’m not a mountaineer, but I climbed Castore. A personal story from Rifugio Quintino Sella to the final ridge of one of Monte Rosa’s most beautiful 4000-metre peaks.

Climbing Monte Rosa takes more than a route description. You need a guide who can read conditions, people and terrain.

A kit list helps you avoid forgetting things, but it needs to be understood. Here’s how to choose your Monte Rosa equipment with responsibility, common sense and real awareness of your own body.

Three Monte Rosa mountain guides share their perspective on how the mountain is changing. Through adaptation, observation and respect, their reflections go beyond climate change and explore our relationship with the alpine environment, modern mountaineering and the future of the mountains.

How does a mountain guide decide whether a climb is feasible? Through the experiences of three Monte Rosa mountain guides, we explore what really matters when making decisions in the mountains: conditions, people, safety and responsibility.

A Monte Rosa climb often begins at four in the morning, in the quiet of a mountain hut. What stays with you, though, usually arrives much later.