Saas-Fee Photo Tour Page (scroll down for pictures)

Saas-Fee (5,935 ft.) a car-less glacier village is referred to by locals as the Pearl of the Alps. The town rests below glaciers that flow from the Michealbel Alps a range of mountains that separate the Matter valley where the Matterhorn is and the Saas valley. Saas-Fee sits like a pearl between the many 4,000 meter peaks and the flowing and hanging glaciers at the heart of the Swiss Alps. Hiking one of many hohenwegs (high elevation trails) that are available from our base in Saas-Fee, you cannot miss the Italian influence on the remote Saas valley. High above the valley floor you see the spray of irrigation systems providing cool water for the grapes that will be harvested by hand and pressed at local wineries.

The towering peaks that separate the two cultures of Switzerland and Italy are bridged by hidden mountain passes that for centuries have allowed cultural blending that has steadily flowed like the melting glacier waters that feed the Saaser Vispa river that flows through the heart of the Saas valley. Countless generations of Swiss and Italians have walked the ancient foot paths of these mountains that we will discover again for the first time.