Cristallina hut
Elevation: 2,575 metres; beds: 120; rooms: 24; owner: CAS Ticino (Photo: Francesca Agosta/tipress)
tipress
Grünhorn hut
The Grühnorn Hut was the first built by the Swiss Alpine Club, in 1863. Since 2011, the hut has been an emergency shelter but is no longer intended for general use. Owner: SAC Tödi (Photo: Imagepoint)
imagepoint
Monte Rosa hut
Elevation: 2,883 metres; beds: 120; rooms: 12; owner: SAC Monte Rosa (Martin Ruetschi/Keystone)
Keystone
Dix hut
Elevation: 2,928 metres; beds: 115; rooms: 16; owner: CAS Monte Rosa (Photo: Imagepoint)
imagepoint
Slumming it with woolen blankets, rustic furniture and a pit toilet are mostly a thing of the past in the Swiss Alpine Club’s mountain huts. Today, beds with duvets, extended menu choices and showers are all part of climbing in the Alps.
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Without these upgrades or new buildings, it would be difficult to keep on attracting guests and ensuring the huts remain economically viable.
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Alpine huts face paradoxical water shortage
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Many hut managers can only dream of the cliché of copious amounts of fresh, cool water gushing forth from picturesque alpine rocks. Reality provides a very different picture, with managers often struggling to save drinking water. “Water scarcity is on the rise,” says Hans Rudolf Keusen, a geologist and natural hazards specialist. “A lasting solution…
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Mouth-watering smells waft into the dining area from the kitchen, where the young “hut helpers” are juggling piles of plates. Guests can fortify themselves with hearty dishes such as rösti, plates of local cheese or dried meat, or bowls of fruit-laden muesli. Barbara Wäfler brings vegetable soup with pork sausages, which hit the spot after…
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