Entering Val di Rhêmes, nestled between Valsavarenche and Valgrisenche in the lower Aosta Valley, one immediately gets the impression of being dwarfed by towering mountains. Steep slopes branch into rocky buttresses from which imposing waterfalls plunge, resonating through the valley floor. Snow cones persist well into the season, and larches climb along the cliffs, adding color to the austere landscape.
Arriving in Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, the space opens up, and the view stretches freely upwards, across pastures and glaciers that peek above the greenery. Even higher, the massive rocky peak of Granta Parei, the undisputed Queen of the Valley, emerges.

Three days dedicated to spring ski mountaineering in high Val di Rhêmes will lead us to explore these vast mountains on the border with France, with a fixed base at Rifugio Benevolo, nestled in the sunlit basin at the foot of the valley's main peaks.