Day 1: Welcome
Your guide welcomes you at the hotel in Gressoney (Italy), explains the program of the week and distributes the ski passes. At dinner, you’ll have the chance to get to know your fellow safari goers. We’ll spend two nights at this hotel.

Day 2: Gressoney
On piste and off piste skiing in the Monte Rosa ski area in Grossoney. Short instruction on off piste security regulations and the use of avalanche transceivers.

Day 3: Heliskiing Lyskamm - Zermatt
After some on piste descents, a helicopter will bring us up to the Lyskamm. We will land between 3800 and 4400 meters, depending on the weather and snow conditions. Magnificent long descent on the glacier to Zermatt. 3 nights at a small hotel in Zermatt.

Day 4 & 5: Zermatt
From Zermatt, we’ll undertake 2 fabulous heliskiing descents from the Monte Rosa glacier and from the Matterhorn. The Zermatt ski area also offers great off piste and on piste descents.

Day 6: Zermatt - Cervinia
The funiculars take us up to the small Matterhorn (3800m). Long descent to Cervinia (1950m) and Valtournanche (1520m), through a vast high alpine ski area. Overnight stay at a hotel in Valtournanche.

Day 7: Valtournanche - Gressoney
After some on piste descents and a short off piste ascent, we enjoy the off piste descent to Champoluc. Using skilifts, we get back to Gressoney, the starting point of this ski safari. Overnight stay at a hotel in Gressoney.

Day 8: Departure
Our ski safari week ends after breakfast.

The ski safari route described above is a selection of the many possible routes in the vast Dolomites ski area. Program and accommodation are subject to change.
  

DATES FROM TODAY
CODE	FROM	UNTIL	PRICE
MR0109 Su 22/03/2009 Su 29/03/2009 2.495,00 € MR0209 Su 29/03/2009 Su 05/04/2009 2.495,00 € MR0309 Suo 19/04/2009 Su 26/04/2009 2.495,00 € Discount if you book with 4 persons: 445,00 € a group Single room supplement per day: payable at the hotel

HIGHLIGHTS	Daily new ski pistes, other mountains Mountain romanticism with comfort and culinary specialties Variant departures in high-altitude skiing areas Heliskiing except for 3800-4400 m Arround the Monte Rosa, 4635m
INCLUDED	Ski guide / ski and mountain guide 7 nights with half board Ski passes or single fares of the relevant ski areas Luggage transfer: Gressoney – Zermatt / Zermatt – Valtournanche / Valtournanche - Gressoney Organised transfers Avalanche transceiver for hire (alpine equipment if necessary) 1 helicopter flight from Gressoney, 2 helicopter flights from Zermatt
NOT INCLUDED	Beverages and lunches
PARTECIPANTS	4-6 people each group
ACCOMMODATION	7 nights at a hotel **/***.
HELISKIING	Heliskiing requires good weather and safe snow conditions. The full fare is reimbursed if a flight needs to be cancelled. The fare amounts to € 129 – 166 per person, depending on the flight route. If heliskiing is not possible, we’ll do off piste descents within the reach of the skilifts. The program and the route may then have to be changed.