welcome back to the channel guys today Cayleigh and I are at the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland
it is the longest glacier in the Alps it's over 20 kilometers long and it is
absolutely stunning oh yeah we're usually not big Glacier people but
this is something else really something else well it's not that we're not Glacier
people we just see a lot of them in Canada so it takes a lot to impress us this has impressed us
the Aletsch Glacier is one of the most impressive places we've ever been and shockingly you can
travel most of the way there by Gondola if you know which route to take so sit back
enjoy and let us walk you through how to have an epic adventure at the great Aletsch glacier
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so there are a few ways that you can get to the Aletsch Glacier there's a few different
towns that you can actually start in it's huge like we mentioned so there's a couple different
options to get to viewpoints but what we chose to do was we drove to the Betten train station
and then we just talked to the lady and told her that we wanted a ticket all the way to the
top basically and that's how we wound up where we did so we took the Gondola from Betten up to
Bettmeralp and then you walk we were like oh no we didn't get all the way up there but you walked
through the town which is cute like if you if you want to stop on your way back for a drink
or something really great place to do it yeah and then you get on another Gondola and take that up
to Bettmerhorn yeah and from there it's like 200 meters you have to walk or something for
it's insane views of the glacier if you wanted to save some money you could take the gondola up to
Battmeralp and hike to Bettmerhorn which would be 5.3 kilometers and 662 meters of elevation
gain this Gondola would cost approximately 20 Swiss Francs per person round trip so that would
save you about 30 Swiss Francs per person yeah so it is a little bit expensive but something
to note too if you're staying at a campground or a hotel in the area they give out discount cards
everywhere that we've stayed has given them and I think it gives it about a 30 discount
on most gondolas so make sure to show that at the desk because that helps out a lot because
the gondolas are expensive and they add up from the Bettmerhorn station the trail actually goes
down beside the glacier you can get really close and you can go as far as you like there's a really
popular Viewpoint which is about five kilometers each way from the Bettmerhorn station all of the
views along here are absolutely stunning you go down about 500 meters of elevation on the
way to this Viewpoint so keep in mind you need to come back up that 500 meters as well
another tip for this hike I would say go on a clear day because the glacier just goes on
forever so the more you can see the better and bring lots of layers it is cold up top
but then like you start hiking you get hot we had we went in September we had toques
and down winter jackets on for a lot of it so yeah the air blows right off the glacier
and it's chilly it's a little worse so we hiked back the same way we came and took the Gondola
from Bettmerhorn back to Bettmeralp and then back down to the Baton train station this means a bit
of a climb on the way back up to Bettmerhorn though that's about 500 meters of elevation
gain another option is to hike a circle from the Bettmerhorn train station to Bettmeralp so you
actually can go down along the glacier stop at the Viewpoint and then make your way on to Bettmeralp
this is 15 kilometers in total however it is mostly downhill so you have 185 meters
of elevation gain and 900 meters of elevation loss on this Trail obviously if you choose this
option you only need to get a one-way Gondola ticket between Bettmeralo and Bettmerhorn what
did you think about the Altesch Glacier it's been on your bucket list forever well worth a day dont
hike it awful idea get the cable car but apart from that well worth it and get a drone that works
and don't forget your camera yeah pretty
much today was just a disaster the glacier was sound though
all good tips all good tips this was one of our favorite points in
Switzerland for sure though it was so beautiful we definitely recommend going
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