Gran Paradiso Tour — Stage 6: Rifugio Città di Chivasso → Rhêmes-Notre-Dame

From the Città di Chivasso hut cross the plateau, branching past the Rosset and Leità lakes to the Col Rosset (3,023 m), a viewpoint over the Granta Parey, “queen” of the Rhêmes valley. The long descent through the Vaudala valley returns to the Aosta Valley at Rhêmes-Notre-Dame (1,725 m).

A big-mountain stage on the Park’s Piedmont side. From the hut you skirt Lake Rosset, leave the pyramid of the Granta Parey — the “Matterhorn of the Rhêmes valley” — to your right, and ascend the stony valley to the Col Rosset, a often windy notch at 3,023 metres. The descent through the Vaudala valley is long and lonely: scree, then pastures, finally the woods above Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, the smallest municipality in the Aosta Valley, where the Park visitor centre tells the story of the bearded vulture’s return. Water only at the high lakes: leave with full bottles.