Diavolezza - Rifugi dals Chamuotsch - Morteratsch-Gletscher

Nice tour from the Diavolezza in impressive surroundings (Piz Palü, Piz Bernina). However, you walk and drive most of the time on the glacier, so you should only do the tour if you have a mountain guide with you, know your way around and/or have a lot of experience. Glacier equipment should be included (rope, harness, carabiner). Also observe avalanche warning level.

From the mountain station of the Diavolezza you first follow the signs with "Glacier Route" and drive down. On the descent, however, you have to keep to the left so that you can get out as far up the glacier as possible. Here you cross the glacier towards the southwest, always towards the stony elevation you want to climb up to. Here you can walk along the left until a nice slope comes, which you then go up. Now you can already see the saddle you want to get to. It is only a good 400hm, but you are at over 3000m altitude and you are a little slower if you are not acclimatized. From the saddle it now goes down a beautiful slope, at the end of which you keep to the left. You can also turn right and get out again on the glacier route, but we didn't do it. Now come some sometimes difficult slopes, as it gets very steep again and again and crevasses can appear. After a last, very steep slope, which should be driven individually, you reach the marked glacier run. Now comes a relatively long mogul slope, which is not nice to drive. In the end, you should take momentum so that you can get down the sometimes quite flat cross-country skiing route well. You end up in Morteratsch, where there is a café, a parking lot and a train that goes about every half hour to the parking lot of the Diavolezza railway.