Overview
Familiarising yourself with the slopes of Monte Rosa on the Ayas Valley side? It's simple! Just start from the office of the management company in Champoluc, the best information point for skiing also in the other connected valleys – Champorcher and Gressoney, and Piedmontese Valsesia – thanks to an impressive array of gondola lifts, chairlifts, ski lifts and moving walkways, plus two cable cars and a funicular.
There are downhill slopes ranging from easy to challenging, whether you choose the Champoluc inner circuit from Frachey – from where you can go up to Alpe Ciarcerio by cable car – or the Bettaforca link to Gressoney. In general terms, the landscape on the Ayas slope is rather broad and not rugged: even the profile of Monte Rosa from here has smooth lines with large glacial plateaus.
Some figures. Over one hundred kilometres of slopes: 28 blue, 73 red and 11 black, with 52 ski lifts between Alagna Valsesia at 1,212 m above sea level and Punta Indren at 3,275 m. The total hourly capacity of the ski lifts is around fifty thousand people per hour. For ski mountaineering, contact the specialised guides in Champoluc.
