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Western Breithorn – Route to Breithorn loop from Klein Matterhorn

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Western Breithorn – Route to Breithorn loop from Klein Matterhorn

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Western Breithorn – Route to Breithorn loop from Klein Matterhorn

03:17

6.13km

270m

Mountaineering

Hard mountaineering route. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

Last updated: July 17, 2026

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Includes segments that are highly dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 2.05 km for 16 m

After 2.23 km for 1.86 km

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Matterhorn Glacier Paradise & Glacier Palace

Highlight • Viewpoint

Off to new adventures on the peak of limitless possibilities, the Matterhorn glacier paradise. The Matterhorn glacier ride takes you to the highest mountain station in Europe, at 3,883 meters above sea level. Do you want to go even higher? Then visit the viewing platform from where you can enjoy a 360° panoramic view of 38 Alpine giants. A tour through the fascinating world of ice and snow in the Glacier Palace will make your trip an incomparable experience!

Viewing platform
A passenger lift takes you up to the highest viewing platform in the Alps at 3,883 meters above sea level. The 360° panorama gives you a view of 38 four-thousanders and 14 glaciers in the French, Italian and Swiss Alps. Find Mont Blanc - the highest mountain in Europe - or the Jungfrau, which shines in all its beauty in the distance.

Glacier Palace
Sparkling ice crystals and dazzling ice sculptures enchant visitors to the Glacier Palace. With a passenger lift you descend 15 meters below the earth's surface and land in a fairytale palace in the middle of eternal ice. Walk through a crevasse or glide down the ice slide before relaxing on an ice bench covered in cozy furs. For explorers big and small!

Source: ilikeswitzerland.com/angebot/matterhorn-glacier-paradies

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Glacier Palace (Gletscherpalast), Klein Matterhorn

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Sparkling ice crystals and dazzling ice sculptures enchant visitors to the Glacier Palace. A passenger lift takes you 15 meters below the ice surface of the glacier. Here the fairytale palace enchants in the middle of the eternal ice. You go through ice tunnels through the glacier, into a crevasse or to the ice slide. Cozy furs lie on ice benches and ice sculptures lead you into the world of ice fairy tales. The sculptures are regularly renewed. They were designed by ice artists.
Source: zermatt.ch/Media/Attractions/Gletscher-Palast

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Glacier Palace, Matterhorn Glacier Paradise

Highlight • Cave

1.29 km

Western Breithorn

Highlight • Summit

From the Rifugio Guide del Cervino on the Plateau Rosà - which you can reach by cable car from Cervinia - you follow the route of a ski lift on the glacier until you reach the large plateau on the Breithorn at the end of the ski slope. From here you continue north to the main glacier, where you pay careful attention to the crevasses. The climb continues over the steep slope, usually on a diagonal from right to left, to the snow-covered ridge, which is bordered by a bowl on the Swiss side. Further to the right you finally reach the broad summit, an excellent vantage point from which you can see the mountain group at Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn and the mountains of the Vallese.

Descent: via the same route as the ascent.

This hiking trail requires experience in high mountains and should only be undertaken when accompanied by a mountain guide.
Source: lovevda.it/de/katalog/7/bergstieg/breuil-cervinia/westliches-breithorn/2634

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Route to Breithorn

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Quite simple descent that winds between the glacier and the ski slopes. Route suitable for those approaching winter mountaineering or in any case with ice ax and crampons. To do roped to avoid falling into some crevasse. It would also be good practice to know the recovery maneuvers in the event of a fall. Not exaggerated height difference and magnificent panorama when you are at the top

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3.13 km

Breithorn Centrale Summit

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Breithorn Centrale 4159m Alpi Pennine

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.09 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

5.44 km

652 m

Elevation

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Highest point (4,020 m)

Lowest point (3,760 m)

Weather

Sunday 19 July

17°C

3°C

21 %

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Max wind speed: 13.0 km/h

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Western Breithorn – Route to Breithorn loop from Klein Matterhorn

Matterhorn Glacier Paradise & Glacier Palace

Glacier Palace (Gletscherpalast), Klein Matterhorn

Glacier Palace, Matterhorn Glacier Paradise

Western Breithorn

Route to Breithorn

Breithorn Centrale Summit

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