The route
Haute Route Chamonix-Zermatt
205.5 km and 14,051 m of climbing: the walking crossing from Chamonix to Zermatt, through the Valais, from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn.
Drawn with a pen, line by line
- Distance
- 205.5 km
- Elevation gain
- 14,051 m
- Highest point
- 2,959 m
- Summits, passes and villages
- 67
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The route in numbers
Indicative figures computed by Plotrek on its illustrative route, with altitudes from a terrain model. They may differ from the organiser's.
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Reading the route
The trail starts in Chamonix, at 1,039 m, below Mont Blanc, and ends in Zermatt, under the Matterhorn, crossing the valleys of the Valais. It is a long-distance walking route, the Walker's Haute Route: 205.5 km and 14,051 m of climbing from end to end.
After Trient (km 23.6) and Champex-Lac (km 38.3), the trail drops to Le Châble (km 52.3), then climbs to the Cabane Mont Fort (km 64.7). It goes on through Arolla (km 94), Zinal (km 127.9), Gruben (km 150.1), Sankt Niklaus (km 167.1) and the Europahütte (km 179).
The high point, 2,959 m, is the Col de Prafleuri, at km 73.6. The longest climb gains 1,447 m between km 102.6 and km 112.5, up to the Col de Torrent. The trail ends in Zermatt, at 1,611 m, at km 205.5.
Paths and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Altitudes measured on the route.
03 · Your poster
The route, drawn with a pen
The relief of the crossing, from Chamonix to Zermatt, takes shape in contour lines: our pen plotter draws it with a pen, line by line. Your name and your dates sit in the cartouche, in A4, A3 or A2.
Shipped from our workshop in Le Bouscat
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Official information
- Illustrative route redrawn by Plotrek from public data: the course announced by the organiser and OpenStreetMap paths. It is not the official course of the event.
- Altitudes: terrain model AWS Terrain Tiles
- Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Figures and text: Plotrek