Climb the Grossglockner

A broad glaciated 3,657 m summit, the classic first big glacier climb in the Eastern Alps.

The second-highest massif in the Alps, with ten summits above 4,000 m in one skyline.

Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse – High Alpine Road – Thirty-six hairpins climb to 2,500 m beneath Austria’s highest peak, with a view straight down the Pasterze glacier.

Summit the highest peak in Western Europe (4,809m) in the French Alps

Climb the Matterhorn’s perfect pyramid — 4,478 m of mountaineering legend on the Italy–Switzerland line

Summit Gran Paradiso, 4,061 m — the only 4,000er entirely inside Italy and a classic first big peak

The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.

The Maiden of the Bernese Oberland, with Europe’s highest railway station on its shoulder.