KOMPASS Hiking Guide Valais,80 tours
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The advantages of the hiking guide at a glance:
- Tours explored by KOMPASS experts
- Each tour includes an elevation profile and map excerpt
- Tips for excursions and overnight stays
- Free download of GPX data
The advantages of the extra tour map at a glance:
- Supports tour selection
- Comprehensive cartographic overview
- Tours can be easily combined
- A lightweight to take along
- Usable as a road and vacation map
The glaciers of the Ice Ages and frost shaped the most photographed pyramid in the world, the Matterhorn. However, the Matterhorn is just one of 47 peaks over 4,000 meters in the Valais. The remaining 5,200 square kilometers of Switzerland's third-largest canton offer even more superlatives - such as the highest point in the Confederation, the longest glaciers in the Alps, Europe's highest mountain huts and cable car stations, karst and rocky steppes, the sunniest and driest place in the country, as well as its largest wine-growing region. On the Valais alpine pastures, Eringer cattle, black-necked goats, and black-nosed sheep graze, which are as typical of the Valais as the old granaries with their "mouse stones." All of this is accessible via a nearly 8,500-kilometer network of marked paths and trails. The 80 tour suggestions in this book can only serve as an initial selection for approaching the hiking paradise of Valais.