The mountain is not ours: learning to respect it in order to truly experience
The mountain is not ours: it is a living, fragile and precious environment. Respecting it means experiencing it with greater awareness.
Mountain insurance: what you really need, without false expectations
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
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.
Monte Rosa Mountain Guides: climb with people who truly know the massif
Climbing Monte Rosa takes more than a route description. You need a guide who can read conditions, people and terrain.
Monte Rosa Equipment: How to Use a Kit List Properly
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.
The Mountain That Changes and the Risk of Nostalgia
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 a Mountain Guide Decides Whether to Climb or Turn Back
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.
What Stays With You After a Monte Rosa Climb?
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.
Silence in the mountains: finding your own rhythm on Monte Rosa
Silence in the mountains changes the way you experience things. On Monte Rosa, you find the space to slow down and choose the ascent that feels right for you..
