The Best Trek of European Alps

Every year I have at least one "great adventure", climbing some high mountain or trekking some legendary route. My challenge in 2016 was one of the best trekking routes in Europe - Walkers Haute Route.

Starting point was in Chamonix, France. This beautiful and small city, right on foot of Mont Blanc, hosted the first Winter Olympics! Here is my group at the beginning of our journey:

The hike took us fifteen long days of walking! Our distance was about 225 km, we gained some 14000 vertical meters, crossed 11 mountain passes, some glaciers and summited the highest trekking peak in Alps - Barrhorn (3610 m.). Here is me, fooling on summit:

This trek is actually very popular, thousands of trekkers walk it every year, but most of them are spending their nights in hotels, eating in restaurants. Our biggest challenge was carrying all our stuff, including food, stoves, cooking gas, tents and sleeping bags... Our backpacks were over 25 kg-s in the beginning!

We had the perfect weather at most of the time. Some nights we didn't even use the tents, sleeping under bare starshine, like on this pic:

But most of our campsites were unbeliveably beautiful! Here is a proof:

In the future I'll be writing more specific blog about this journey, but now I just say, we finished this trek 15 days after beginning in small town on foot of Matterhorn - another very famous mountain in Switzerland. You have seen it somewhere, I can bet! Its the one and only "Toblerone mountain":

Thanks for reading, hopefully you liked it! And if you wish to trek it yourself, I'll be glad to give you some useful hints and info about it ;)