The Gran Paradiso park and mountain, the first of Italy’s “four thousanders”, have long since been popular with visitors and mountaineers, but it is only in the last few years that enthusiasts from all over Europe have started coming to Cogne in winter to climb the valley’s beautiful frozen waterfalls with the piolet-traction technique.
Ideas:
Mountaineering, trekking and trip round the Gran Paradiso, guided trips over rock, ice or mixed terrain, guided trips on the glaciers, canyoning,
courses or lessons to learn rock climbing, ice climbing and dry tooling, cramponnage/ruisseling school - trips with crampons on frozen waterfalls, activities for kids, games with ropes,
winter trips on snow shoes, sping or winter ski mountaineering trips (also on the peak of the Gran Paradiso), offe-piste, descents down theVallée Blanche.
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