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Run the Alps in Zermatt, with Matterhorn behind

Run the Alps’ Inaugural Via Valais: Snow and Sun amid the High Alps

Guided by Mark Brightwell

This year, Run the Alps offered a September guided trail run over the Via Valais, a route designed by our friends at ALPSinsight. Wandering through Switzerland's Valais Alps, the route is high, wild, and challenging.

Looking towards Mont Collon from a gloomy Arolla on Day 1 (Photo: Mark Brightwell.)

The team, ready to set off across the Valais Alps (Photo: Mark Brightwell.)

Heading through cloud, sleet and hail up to Col de Sorebois (Photo: Mark Brightwell.)

One of our first views of the Matterhorn, seen from the Europaweg trail, with Zermatt below (Photo: Mark Brightwell.)

Beautiful single track – and plenty of sun! – on the way up to Gornergrat (Photo: Mark Brightwell.)