Recommended guidebook: Gillian Price, Through the Italian Alps - GTA: The Grande Traversata delle Alpi. Cicerone, 2005. ISBN 1-85284-417-5. "Italy's most rewarding long-distance walking route. An excess of brilliant alpine scenery." Ecco bravo!

The GTA website is in German because the majority of the hikers on the GTA long-distance mountain trail are Germans. Now don't panic man you'll NOT be overrun by debladikrauz: there is NO Germoney-based mass tourism as in Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, or ... Tuscany, because the capacity of the overnight stops is very limited; more often than not they sleep a mere 8 - 10 people! Needless to say, English-speaking hikers from all over the world can make use of our comprehensive GTA website as well, as you will easily understand our continuously updated infrastructure listings. Altogether we have compiled more than 600 printed pages with more than 600 beautiful pictures. The chapters are:

Introduction

Accommodation: addresses, telephone numbers, warden, opening hours, etc., of all hotels, mountain huts, overnight stops, restaurants, and stores

Trail legs: alternative routes, forks, deviations, junctions, signs, signposts, state of the trail, etc.

Literature: you can order all guidebooks and maps - including the new Alps without Frontiers map + English-language guidebook series! - directly from us

Tips

Equipment

Comprehensive report in English by Joan and Pete Miller, United Kingdom, 17 July 2004, who did the whole trek.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Rimella (in English!)

Guided mountain trekkings in the Rimella area

Guided mountain trekkings in the Sesian valley

Strona Valley

Links

Regularly updated guidebooks with detailed descriptions of the trail legs, accommodation listings and really comprehensive background information have been available in German ONLY, again: because the vast majority of the hikers on the GTA long-distance mountain trail are Germans! There is NOTHING reliable available in Italian. The new editions of Werner Bätzing's famous "GTA Nord" (from the Monte Rosa region down to the Susa valley) and "GTA Süd" (from Susa down to the Ligurian Alps near the Mediterranean Sea) have already received excellent reviews in the pertinent media - see here. These indispensable guidebooks - plus all hiking maps for the whole region - can be conveniently ordered directly from us!

See you up there!

Photo CD GTA North - Rimella - Val Mastallone - Varallo - Val Sesia

Three CDs with the most beautiful pictures from 2005. High resolution with 2272 • 1704 pixels. Click the pictures below to download the original graphic files in full size!

CD 1: The Villages. More than 470 pictures of Campello Monti, Cervarolo, Cervatto, Civiasco, Cravagliana, Fobello, Rimella, Sabbia and Varallo. Click here for the list of villages!

CD 2: The Mountain Agriculture. More than 470 pictures from Alpe Addiaccio Grasso to Alpe Zer Obru Chescheru. Click here for the list of the Alpes!

CD 3: The Digital Panoramas. More than 150 digital panoramas with high resolution of up to 17000 • 2100 pixels, plus more than 100 pictures. Cima del Camossaro, Cima del Nico, Cima di Vaso, Cima Moscatelli, Gratic, Massa del Turlo, Monte Càpio, Monte Galerno, Roccia della Gula, Wisse Flüe, Tuppuwald, Alpe Cama, Alpe Catcuràa, Alpe Ciupai, Alpe Ebelje, Alpe Giavina Lunga, Alpe Lagone, Alpe Pizzole, Alpe Sass dell'Oca, Alpe Vegliana, Alpe Vairolo, ... Click here for the list of digital panoramas!

Prize 30 EUR each including packing and postage. Special package price of only 80 EUR for CDs 1 + 2 + 3 with 1,200 files. Available directly from the author.

Amount of work involved: about 800 man hours in the mountains, about 90 man hours on the computer.

"Caro Giorgio, ricevuto tutto, cartoline e CD, grazie, sono molto belli. Due serie di fotografie le ho già vendute." Piera Rinoldi, Bar Monte Càpio, Prati di Rimella, 22 October 2005.

"Complimenti per le belle foto!!!!" Flavio Cappelletti, Verbania, 17 November 2006.

"Caro Giorgio, oggi ho ricevuto il pacco con le fotografie, mie e quelle da distribuire, grazie, come al solito molto belle ..." Piera Rinoldi, Bar Monte Càpio, Prati di Rimella, 5 November 2009.

The internet is NOT for free. We are a private initiative and NOT a tourist office, tour operator, or travel agency. By consequence, www.gtaweb.de with more than 600 printed pages and more than 600 fotos has to be paid by its users and beneficiaries - that is you! If our extremely comprehensive information has helped to make your GTA trekking a success, we would be grateful for a cash donation. It will be used exclusively for the internet costs and telecom charges that derive from the time-consuming updating of this GTA website. www.gtaweb.de will be continued only if really all GTA hikers contribute to it!