Walking in the Alps

Comprehensive large-format guidebook offering an overview of the countless walking and trekking opportunities in the Alps, covering France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia. Packed with practical information and enough suggestions to fill a walker's holidays for several lifetimes.

• Details for 19 Alpine regions: geographical overview, principal peaks, centres and bases, huts, access, maps, guidebooks and sources of further information
• Area by area descriptions presenting the main highlights, access points and facilities, and suggestions for walks
• Many of Europe's finest treks and hut-to-hut traverses summarised, including the Tour du Mont Blanc, the Walker's Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt) and the Italian Alta Via treks
• Walks offering views of evocative peaks, such as Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn and the Marmolada
• Notes on via ferrata routes in the Brenta
• Includes the Maritime Alps, Bernese Alps (including the Jungfrau region), Julian Alps and Dolomites, plus the Tirol, Engadine, Gran Paradiso, Écrins, Vanoise and Hohe Tauern, among others