Six routes across three corners of the Alps
Each region has two routes and a guide who lives in its valleys. You fly into Venice, Innsbruck or Ljubljana and take a train and a bus to the start village. From there you walk from hut to hut.
Dolomites, nights between 1,274 m and 2,707 m
The paths cross pale limestone and long scree slopes, and most nights are in rifugi, the staffed huts of these mountains. The four-day route finishes in Val Dores, and the six-day route with the cabled ridge sets off from it.
Stubai and Ötztal, huts above Tyrolean valleys
Here two valleys hold alpine club huts on the slopes and inns on the valley floor. The shorter route crosses the Grauer Joch at 2,860 m, a broad saddle with a good path over it. No day on it climbs more than 986 m, so it is our only grade 2 route.
Stubai Ridge Walk
Five days along the ridge between two Tyrolean valleys, sleeping in alpine huts and one valley inn.
See the routeÖtztal Hut Taster
Three days and two nights, the shortest way to find out how you walk at altitude.
See the route
This is the steepest walking we offer, on white limestone above green valleys. You sleep in mountain huts called koče, in huts on the high pastures and in village guesthouses. Both routes are grade 4: each has three days in a row with more than 800 m of ascent.
The huts open in late June
All three regions share a season, from late June to mid September, because that is when the huts are staffed. In 2027 the first group sets off on 26 June and the last on 18 September, 23 departures in all.
See every 2027 date
You see the whole route before you walk it.
One office, five guides and six routes
Walking hut to hut since 2014. The office is in Kendal, in the Lake District. Before you book, you get each day of your route in kilometres and metres, and the night's hut by name.
Every night of the season is booked from Kendal before the first departure. The guide named on a route page is the one who walks it with you. Your guide holds a pace the slowest walker can keep and stops on the long climbs.
The people who walk in front
Ruth Calder
International Mountain Leader
She drew the first route notes by hand on her kitchen table in Kendal, and she still writes every set.
Matteo Dallago
IFMGA mountain guide
He grew up in the hut his parents kept.
Chiara Pescosta
International Mountain Leader
She carries a hand lens and stops below the Grava Pass to show the group the gentians on the scree.
Lena Gruber
International Mountain Leader
She ran the kitchen of a 60-bed hut for four summers, so she knows when dinner is served and why.
Žiga Kralj
International Mountain Leader
He spent eight winters in the mountain rescue service of his valley.
Owen Pryce · Trips and bookings · Kendal
Owen walked all six routes himself before he sat down to the bookings. He keeps the season's bed chart for every hut.
Tell us where you want to walk
Start with the region, then the route and the dates that suit you. Owen Pryce reads every enquiry and calls you to talk through the route.
A £250 deposit holds your place. The balance is due eight weeks before departure.
