Alpine cottages covered with snow powder in Alagna Valsesia village, Monterosa ski resort, Italy
Monterosa Ski Resort Barely known internationally, Monterosa Ski is Italy’s biggest ski region, with more vertical drop and acreage than many central Alpine ski domains. Spanning three valleys and several village resorts it’s a charming taste of Italy that caters well for piste skiers, with big mountain skiing thrown in for the brave. Monte Rosa 4633m, the ‘pink mountain’, is actually many mountains and they’re only pink at sunrise and sunset. So much for the name. It is also the Alps’ biggest, iciest lump of rock - its highpoint may be nearly two hundred metres lower than Mont Blanc’s 4807m summit, but it’s part of a massif made up of multiple 4000 metre peaks that stretch from the Monte Moro above Macugnaga in the east to within a snowball’s throw of the Matterhorn to the west, over 16km away if you follow the ridge line (stout shoes and packed lunch recommended). You only drop below 4000 metres on two occasions, with over twenty named glaciers descending to either side. The skiing potential on its lower flanks is huge: the Swiss resorts of Zermatt and Saas Fee flirt with the ridges and glaciers that fan out to the north; to the south, three Italian valleys – Ayas (Champoluc), Gressoney and Valsesia (Alagna) reach toward the heights, combining to make the Monterosa ski region.
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Location: Alagna Valsesia, Italy, Europe
Photo credit: © m c photography / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: alagna, alpine, alps, cottage, cottages, roofs, snow, valsesia
