Rifugio città di Mantova, Mountain hut in Gressoney-La-Trinité, Italy.
The Rifugio città di Mantova is a mountain hut in the Aosta Valley, sitting on the Garstelet glacier at around 3,498 feet (3,498 m) in the Monte Rosa area. It offers dormitory sleeping rooms and simple hot meals served in a shared dining room.
The hut was built in the 1970s by the alpine club of Mantua to give mountaineers a high base for routes on the Monte Rosa massif. Over the following decades it was renovated and updated to meet growing visitor needs.
The shelter takes its name from the northern Italian city of Mantua, whose alpine club built and still manages it today. Guests often gather around shared tables in the dining room, exchanging route advice and weather observations before or after their climbs.
The hut is reached on foot from the Indren cable car station in about one hour across glacial terrain. Warm and waterproof layers are necessary, along with sturdy boots and crampons for the glacier crossing.
Routes departing from this hut lead directly to Punta Gnifetti, where the highest permanently staffed mountain hut in Europe stands above 4,500 meters. That upper hut, however, is only within reach for climbers with technical alpine experience.
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