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Hotel Belalp (2130m, accommodation, refreshments) looks across the valley from a prominent position high above the glacier gorge (Tel 027 924 24 22, www.hotel-belalp.ch). The original hotel was built as a 10-roomed wooden chalet in 1858. Provisions were brought up by mule from Brig (more than 1500m below), while women guests were carried up on a chaise by four men. An early Visitor’s Book contains the names of many Alpine pioneers, among them AW Moore who, in 1864, claimed to have walked there in a day from Zermatt. ‘Not too long,’ he wrote, ‘starting early.’

For dormitory accommodation and the cableway down to Blatten, follow the dirt road which passes along the right-hand side of Hotel Belalp and eases round the hillside, passing numerous chalets, to reach Belalp cablecar station – about 30mins from Hotel Belalp. A few paces beyond the Belalp cablecar station stands the Hotel & Pizzeria Aletschhorn which has good facilities and comfortable dormitory accommodation (Tel 027 923 29 80, www.aletschhorn.ch).