Gran Paradiso Tour — Stage 4: Eaux Rousses → Pont

A half-day stage along the Park’s wildest valley floor: from Eaux-Rousses ascend the Valsavarenche through larch woods and clearings, the Gran Paradiso announcing itself above, to the Pont plain (1,960 m), trailhead of the normal route to the summit.

A breather of a day along the Savara stream, in the wildest and least built valley floor of the region: the Valsavarenche is the only Aosta Valley valley to lie entirely inside the Park. The trail alternates larch woods, clearings and old hamlets — Tignet, Bois de Clin, Pravieux — whose stone-slab roofs speak of an architecture born for winter. Ahead, ever closer, the summits of the Gran Paradiso group. Pont, with its flat meadows and two historic hotels, is the base for summit attempts: in the evening it has the feel of an old-time base camp.