11 multi-peak itineraries

The tours.

Standard ridge traverses and hut tours climbers plan as a single package. Each tour chains together huts and bags several four-thousanders in one push.

Spaghetti Tour

4-7 days · 9 4000ers

Classic high-altitude hut-to-hut traverse of the Italian Monte Rosa. From Alagna via the Punta Indren cable car, a strong party can summit up to ten 4000-metre peaks in five days, sleeping at three of the highest huts in the Alps along the way. The 'spaghetti' nickname comes from the carb-heavy Italian-hut dinners.

PD+

Peuterey Integral

3-4 days · 3 4000ers

One of the longest and most committing ridges in the Alps — the entire Peuterey skyline from Val Veny to the summit of Mont Blanc. The full integral starts on the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey (not a 4000er, so not in the UIAA 82) before crossing the Aiguille Blanche, the Col de Peuterey, and the upper Brouillard / Frêney face to finish on Mont Blanc. Done a handful of times each summer by very strong parties.

Rochefort–Jorasses Traverse

2-3 days · 7 4000ers

Sweeping high-ridge traverse from the Aiguille du Géant over the Rocheforts, across the Col des Grandes Jorasses and over all five summits of the Grandes Jorasses. Seven 4000ers collected in one continuous push.

Miage–Bionnassay–Mont Blanc Traverse

3-4 days · 3 4000ers

Aesthetic high-traverse on the western edge of the Mont Blanc massif. From Tré-la-Tête over the Dômes de Miage (not a 4000er) and the Aiguille de Bionnassay east ridge to the summit of Mont Blanc by the Bosses ridge — without ever touching the standard Goûter route until the final stretch.

Mont Blanc Trois Monts

1-2 days · 3 4000ers

The shorter, more technical alternative to the Goûter route. A single big push from the Aiguille du Midi cable car, summiting Mont Blanc du Tacul and Mont Maudit en route to Mont Blanc itself — three 4000ers in one day.

PD+

Nadelgrat Traverse

1-2 days · 5 4000ers

Classic high-ridge traverse over the four 4000-metre summits of the Nadelgrat between the Bordierhütte and the Mischabelhütte: Dürrenhorn, Hohberghorn, Stecknadelhorn, Nadelhorn. Usually extended to include the Lenzspitze on the descent.

Liskamm Traverse

1-2 days · 2 4000ers

Sharp ridge traverse between Felikjoch and Lisjoch over both summits of the Liskamm. The corniced ridge earned the peak its old nickname, the 'Menschenfresser'. Usually climbed west-to-east from the Quintino Sella to the Gnifetti / Mantova.

Schreckhorn–Lauteraarhorn Traverse

2-3 days · 2 4000ers

Demanding ridge traverse between the two main four-thousanders of the central Bernese Oberland. From the Schreckhornhütte over the Schreckhorn south-west ridge, then along the snow-and-rock ridge to the Lauteraarhorn and back.

Breithorn Full Traverse

1-2 days · 4 4000ers

East-to-west traverse over all four 4000-metre summits of the Breithorn massif: Roccia Nera, Eastern, Central and Western. Started from the Bivacco Rossi e Volante and finished at the Klein Matterhorn cable car.

PD+

Dom–Täschhorn Traverse

2 days · 2 4000ers

Demanding ridge traverse on the Mischabel chain connecting the two highest summits entirely within Switzerland. Usually climbed south-to-north: up the Täschhorn south-east ridge from the Mischabeljoch bivouac, across the Mischabelgrat to the Dom, and down the Festigrat to the Domhütte.

Alphubel–Täschhorn Traverse

2-3 days · 2 4000ers

Classic Mischabel linkup that uses the gentle Alphubel as an acclimatisation precursor to the far more serious Täschhorn. From the Täschhütte, climb the Alphubel by the SE ridge (Eisnase, PD) or the elegant Rotgrat (AD), then drop down its north ridge (AD-, ~350 m, 1–1½ h) to the Mischabeljochbiwak — the unstaffed 24-place SAC bivouac perched at 3,851 m on the col between the two peaks, the second-highest SAC facility in the Alps. The next morning the Mischabelgrat (SSE ridge, AD+, brittle rock to III, often heavily corniced) leads in 4–5 hours to the Täschhorn, one of the hardest 4000ers by any route. Most parties descend the same ridge to the joch (3½–4 h) and continue down the Weingarten glacier to Täschalp; very strong parties instead carry on north over the ridge to the Dom (D) for the complete Mischabel traverse. Needs a stable multi-day weather window — the bivouac is a serious place to sit out a storm.

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