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Skymap Skywords EN 06 Summer 2021 skypass If you have this map in your hands, you have accepted the challenge: to climb the great mountain and arrive where the gaze is lost. Unparalleled views to explore, the living nature to meet, a sky in which to walk. Skyway Monte Bianco is not just a cable car. Get ready. Credits PHOTO: A. Bazzana, R. Bianchi, F. Bolis, G. Di Mauro, E. Massa Micon, S. Montaz, R. Pircher, L. Rolli, G. Sarno, V. Sommariva, G. Willeit STORYTELLING GRAPHIC DESIGN: STUDIO / MILANO 2 06 When you come back to the valley, you won’t be the same. You’re about to become a Skynaut. Punta Helbronner_The Sky 3466 m / 11371 ft Pavillon_The Mountain 2173 m / 7129 ft Courmayeur_The Valley 1300 m / 4265 ft 3 06 Courmayeur The Valley Café des Alpinistes The excitement is growing, the cable car embark on. You might meet one of the stories awaits and you are just dying to leave. and legends from the mountain tops. But hold on: enjoy the moment, do not be in The guides who meet in the Café know them, a hurry. Let yourself be enchanted by a little they bring them down to the valley and talk souvenir of the journey you are about to about them over familiar food and drink. Even if you can’t see it, the threshold is here. One more step and you leave everything behind you. Here you will not be a simple visitor. This is the start of an unforgettable adventure. 4 06 Meeting the mountain, learning to recognise its secrets while respecting it: this is the second step to becoming a Skynaut. Being an explorer. Pavillon Level -1 The Mountain Alpine Restaurant Dazzling white light flooding through the international films. windows, the cheer in the voices of the other This unusual, exciting collaboration brings Skynauts: an invitation. Like any explorer, you the sound of the waves to Mont Blanc and can take a pause and relax your muscles too. the marvel of mountain peaks to the high Here, Aosta Valley is served and told by seas, all translated into a unique spectator those who know it well. Share the genuine experience, with two breath-taking views in joy of an alpine lunch and discover that each a single glance: the image of a motorboat ingredient tells a story. speeding through blue water, before a window thrown open onto the Valle d’Aosta. Riva in the movie Riva in the Movie at Skyway Monte Bianco: The many different enterprises we associate all the wonder of Italy, from zero right up to with wonder share an intimate, almost three thousand metres. magical, link. A link that becomes even stronger when one of them is in difficulty. And Alpine Cinema this strengthened link is what has prompted Spectacularly unexpected. Skyway and the Ferretti group to dedicate an Not just the big silver screen, the stage and its exhibition to the world of film. stars. Spectacular are these rows of seats, the Riva in the Movie tells the story of this famous comfy armchairs. brand through the many films in which Riva Spectacular is sitting in a cinema like this, at boats have played an important role. From Il an altitude of over two thousand metres, Sorpasso (The Easy Life) to James Bond, losing yourself in a film, a voice telling a story, from Italian comedies to the nostalgic taking part in a conference. Just like sitting “musicarello”, Riva motorboats have left their down with mountains. mark of Italian excellence on the history of 5 06 Pavillon The Mountain Level 0 Hangar 2173 The Mountain Bar Past and present. This mountain is not something you feel only From the Mont Blanc cable car to Skyway with your eyes as they seek the scenery out Follow the cable, right inside the Hangar, in there. It is also in your nose, on your palate. there where it jealously guards the story of the Here, every dish reveals a mystery, every Skyway Monte Bianco: the site that embraces flavour is knowledge, every aroma a bridge the sky, the enthusiasm, and the enterprise between today’s food and wine and the of constructing something worthy of its vitality of local nature. Here, every flavour is a mountain. But today’s cables and pulleys are story suspended halfway between the valley only a part of the story. Get into an old car for and the mountain top. a real feel of the past. Skyway Monte Bianco has inherited the legacy of those who, way Cave Mont Blanc back in 1947, dared to look at the world from At 2173 metres asl the pressure is lower, the a different perspective and we are here temperature harsher, and altitude and climati to look after it. conditions are written into everything. Even into the grapes, when you know how to treat Skyway Boutique them with skill and imagination: each bunch, You can tell Skynauts by the things they bring each grape is knowledgeably put to rest in with them. Their equipment. Here you will the snow and turned into a precious liquid find everything you need for exploring the that you, Skynaut, will find in bottles of Cuvée mountain and walking among the roots of the des Guides. sky without being caught unawaress. And you might even find something to take home and remind you of this memorable adventure. 6 06 The history of Pointe Helbronner Come and learn all about it at the exhibition dedicated to Paul Helbronner. Pavillon The Mountain Level 1 Paul Helbronner and Mont Blanc Solarium Terrace Have you ever wondered where the name Take a break. Close your eyes. Enjoy the Pointe Helbronner comes from? The peak where combination of the fresh, clean air that fills your the top Skyway station is located was named lungs and the warmth of a sun which here, at after Paul Helbronner, a geodesist engineer 2200 metres, is more vivid and closer than ever with a passion for painting and photography. before. Unwind, relax and stretch your muscles. At the turn of the twentieth century, this man The Solarium Terrace is a unique opportunity to from the valley bottom championed a rather enjoy the sun’s caress on your skin while admiring crazy mission: to measure the French Alps as the spectacle below you: Courmayeur, Val Veny accurately as possible. Do you want to know if and Val Ferret. he succeeded? Visit the exhibition all about him. Trails Pavillon Park The mountain talks, especially to those who There is a great explorer inside every little explore it, one step after another. There are lots Skynaut and here, young Skynauts, you can of trails from Pavillon - the Mountain station that climb like a mountaineer or an ibex, or cross a allows you to listen to the mountain: the Brenva lake on a raft like the pioneers did. Here you can Belvedere trail, which crosses the meltwater learn to move like a creature of the mountains, streams and takes you right to the glacier itself, a hero, a real explorer, in a safe environment the Brenva Glacier Pavillon-Prou trail with its created just for you. And for bigger Skynauts, spectacular view of the Courmayeur hollow, the beauty of the Pavillon natural park and a via the Cabane du Berger. Follow the trail best chance to relax in the sun. suited to your level and be prudent; only in this way will you truly discover what this great mountain has to tell you, one step after another. 7 06 Pavillon The Mountain Level 1 Saussurea Alpine Botanical Garden More than nine hundred botanical species We climb metre by metre as we approach that would be impossible to find in nature in the perpetually snowy peaks of Mont Blanc, the space of just a few meters and a story that that rock that speaks to the clouds, drawing coveys all their wonder. our eyes to the sky. But at a certain point we pause, slow down and lower our gaze: to Walk through the Garden and respond to the acknowledge the invaluable contribution of invitation offered by this tiny swarm of plants: each small piece that makes up the great closely observe the natural intelligence that mosaic of this ancient landscape. forms each plant in order to comprehend, in the design and in the millimetres that identify That’s right, because the magnificence of a each individual specimen, a history made up giant like this, on closer inspection, is made of miles, geographic locations and seasons. up of an incessant swarm of hundreds and And have fun discovering its name, scents and thousands of tiny living wonders. Indeed, the secrets. Saussurea Botanical Garden is dedicated to these marvels. 8 06 9 06 Punta Helbronner The Sky The air up here is rarefied and it changes you. It makes you lighter. In this beauty, inside you, a pilgrim is reborn. Now you can walk in the sky. Level 3 Level 2 360° Observatory Bistrot Panoramic You have been getting ready for this moment Imagine you are on a cloud. Sitting softly for two thousand metres: this is where your between the earth and the sky. Below you, and ascent ends. Inside you there is the same around you, the last metres of the mountain euphoria as when you set out, but your climb in its winter guise. Above you and around you, has changed. You could try to embrace it all the lightness of an air that here is absolute. You with a look, but this enchantment will not fit want to stay and you can.