We've added a guided option on the Walker's Haute Route, for summer 2009. This is our 5th guided trip in our schedule and we hope it will prove good fun!

For 2009, across all 5 guided trips, we're offering scheduled trips - these are trips on set dates that are open to all-comers. So, if you're coming by yourself or as a couple, or in any small group, we hope this will be of interest. If you're a group of about 5 or more, and fancy different dates or going by yourselves, let us know and we'll plan a private guided trip for you.

So, here are the dates for the scheduled trips:

Swiss Valais: 27 June to 4 July 2009
Chamonix Mountain Walking: 11 to 18 July 2009
Julian Alps Hut-to-Hut: 25 July to 1 August 2009
Walker's Haute Route: 15-29 August 2009
Tour du Mont Blanc: 5-19 September 2009

Please contact us for more info about what these guided trips involve. Thank you.

Guided walking holidays in the Alps

Our scheduled snowshoe trips are now available to book for 2010. It seems a long way off, but it'll soon come round... These are of course additional to our service of private trips for pre-formed groups of family and friends. So, here are the dates:

Chamonix Snowshoeing - 7 nights - 16-23 January 2010 Vaudoise Alps Snowshoeing - 5 nights - 13-18 March 2010

Chamonix Snowshoeing

Vaudoise Alps Snowshoeing

For Winter 2010 we are offering a scheduled Chamonix Snowshoeing trip, open to all. Join others to explore the winter hills around Chamonix, with an expert leader. This will run during January, with dates to be announced soon, and is in addition to our standard service of private group trips available at any time during this coming winter (2009) and winter 2010. Please see our updated page for more info:

Chamonix Snowshoeing

Our News & Events page has today become the Exploratory blog. A blog is just an online diary; we'll use this blog to keep readers up to speed with what's going on at Alpine Exploratory. Thank you for reading, and we hope it's useful.