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DATES: 6/23 - 7/13, 7/16 - 8/05
Duration: 21 Days
tuition: $4,490
Arrive/Depart: Geneva, Switzerland
Grades: 9th & up

European Alps
International Adventure

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Journey from Geneva to the Alps
  • Hike the Haute Route to Zermatt
  • Climb the Breithorn
  • Visit Chamonix, Champex, and Zermatt
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ACTIVITIES
  • Backpacking
  • Cultural Immersion
  • Glacier Trekking
  • Hiking
  • Leadership Training
  • Mountaineering
Trip Overview
Our European Alps trek combines spectacular hut trekking over two of Europe's most famous routes, with visits to charming villages in France, Switzerland, and Italy. The trip culminates with a glacier climb up the Breithorn at 13,450 feet.

Journey from Geneva to the Alps

Following our arrivals in Geneva, we'll be off to Chamonix for orientation, rest, and acclimatization. In this beautiful mountain village, we'll get to know each other and pack for our trip.

Hike the Haute Route to Zermatt

From Champex, Switzerland, we will embark on the famous Haute Route east to Zermatt. For the next 13 days we'll backpack at high elevations, stopping at mountain huts to exchange stories and spend nights with other European travelers. This is some of the Alps' most incredible landscape, with flower-filled meadows, glaciers, snowfields, and forests.

Climb the Breithorn

After a relaxing day in the charming ski village of Zermatt, exploring its many narrow streets and colorful shops, we'll ride a gondola to 12,000 feet to join professional mountain guides. We will then trek across glaciers to the summit of the Breithorn at 13,450 feet. A spectacular sight awaits, spanning the peaks of the Bernese Oberland to the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc beyond.

Visit Chamonix, Champex, and Zermatt

After our Breithorn climb we will board the train back to Chamonix for a day of relaxation and exploration. We will enjoy our end-of-summer feast where we'll celebrate our accomplishments before boarding our return flights home.
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Teen Tours in Europe:

While many people may be looking for a European teen tour, Wilderness Ventures offers teens the chance to experience europe in ways unlike any other teen tour available to today's teens. Our European Alps "teen tour" hikes between alpine huts in our small teen tour groups -- well supervised and grouped according to age. This teen tour culminates with a spectacular clacier climb of the 13,450-foot Breithorn -- an experience you're unlikely to get on any other teen tour.

 

Also featured is our Southern European Teen Tour, which adventures with teens through the French and Swiss Alps and the Spanish Pyrenees. Teen on this international teen tour also get to sea kayak the southern coast of Spain and explore Paris.

 

For more information on our European Teen Tours and International Teen Tours, please call 800-533-2281. Unlike typical teen tours, which may have students seeing Europe from the inside of a coach bus, Wilderness Ventures' teen tours are immersive, substantive and fun. This is the best once-in-a-lifetime teen tour available to todays teens. We look forward to talking to you about our European Teen Tours our International Teen Tours and all of our other teen tour offerings.