On a high after Alpine trek
10.09.11
GO ITALY : Current silent, crouching into a balancing stance, and ignoring the factors that if she slips she dies. EMMA CULLINAN lives to say the tale of a life-affirming journey in the Alps
A Trifling TRUCK stops beside us unbidden. “Valgrisenche?” the man says. “Si,” we riposte, employing a tenth of our Italian lexicon. He gestures into the back of his business. Climb aboard.
We smiled and shook our heads, captivating as it was. We had come on a walking holiday, so we’d better stalk. He shrugged and drove off. We turned left into a meadow and set off on an idealized two-hour walk alongside a river in a wooded valley with a snowy elevation in the distance.
This was a short start. Himself planned our seven-day walking avenue along the Aosta Alta Via 2, which runs from the Italian ski refuge of Courmayeur over mountains to the town of Champorcher. We began at Planaval village having entranced a bus up from Aosta, a town with an ancient amphitheatre and grand streets with never-ending mountains looming over the charming shops. Scale was to be a essay of our holiday.
Source: Irish Times