Monte Rosa massif

Highest point in Italy.

Finally woke up to some sun this morning after two days of cloudy wet weather. It was worth waiting for.

We took the chairlift (my first time) up to the glacier that flows down from Monte Rosa (about 1900m), then walked across it for the views, then back down to the car. It’s Sunday so there were lots of people walking up. Beautiful views all the way.

I was naively expecting ice and snow on the glacier (the woman in the tourism office had suggested that we needed crampons - at least, that’s what we thought she said!) but the snow line was still well above us. We were basically just walking across the rocky moraine below the glacier proper.

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