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  • @kt9493
    @kt9493 Год назад +85

    The construction of the hut was directed by the Italian Alpine Club in 1889. The hut was pre-built in the valley, then brought to its final destination by mule and then by men, and assembled on site.
    A complete restoration started in 1977. The original hut was dismantled and was replaced by the current hut, built in Valsesia in the town of Failungo Superiore, very close to Alagna Valsesia, which opened in 1980.

  • @willzsportscards
    @willzsportscards Год назад +27

    Man. Getting that thing built is just simply incredible.

    • @albertlevert2988
      @albertlevert2988 Год назад +6

      And in the nineteenth century, with no helicopters etc.!

    • @willzsportscards
      @willzsportscards Год назад +6

      @@albertlevert2988 honestly, it’s crazy. Hard to believe it was done tbh.

  • @timcarswell9559
    @timcarswell9559 3 года назад +84

    A few years ago I organised a ‘boys walking weekend’ from London and from the comfort of my flat Alagna to the Rifugio Margarita seemed like a good option. Well, we made it and stayed overnight at the Rifugio. But I had seriously underestimated the effect of altitude sickness without proper acclimatisation and it was not a pleasant night! Even our guide, who had not been up for a couple of weeks, was affected. But as we walked down we all began to feel better, were able to bask in the glow of achievement and look forward to cold beer awaiting in Alagna!

    • @massimoboscaini
      @massimoboscaini 3 года назад +3

      Hello Tim, l'm from Varallo Sesia but now l live in Parma. Massimo (Martina is my dog).

    • @NishthaMinhas
      @NishthaMinhas Год назад

      क्या आप अधिक विस्तार से उत्तर दे सकते हैं?

  • @faded_ink3545
    @faded_ink3545 5 лет назад +81

    Props to the cameraman for lugging up all that gear.

    • @andynieuwenhuis7833
      @andynieuwenhuis7833 Год назад

      I believe that like I own the Brooklyn Bridge; I'M a Canadian

  • @matthewmolina3866
    @matthewmolina3866 5 лет назад +203

    What would have been more interesting is to have seen how it was built.

    • @bmolitor615
      @bmolitor615 Год назад +6

      you could google it yer own self

    • @matthewmolina9485
      @matthewmolina9485 Год назад +5

      @@bmolitor615 thank you, whoever you are hiding. You were very helpful, not.

    • @bmolitor615
      @bmolitor615 Год назад +3

      @@matthewmolina9485 Well then, you just carry on with your demands for pablum to be spooned directly into your mouth by anything - ANYTHING - other than yer own hand, Matthew. God forbid that you should type "building of Margherita hut" into a search engine - I can see that you have much better things to type out into RUclips comments. Carry on.

    • @kt9493
      @kt9493 Год назад +2

      The construction of the hut was directed by the Italian Alpine Club in 1889. The hut was pre-built in the valley, then brought to its final destination by mule and then by men, and assembled on site.
      A complete restoration started in 1977. The original hut was dismantled and was replaced by the current hut, built in Valsesia in the town of Failungo Superiore, very close to Alagna Valsesia, which opened in 1980.

    • @matthewmolina9485
      @matthewmolina9485 Год назад +3

      @@kt9493 thank you very much, sir. You are very kind. Sincerely, Matthew

  • @williameisenberg1999
    @williameisenberg1999 8 месяцев назад +2

    Absolutely spectacular,,, Would love to visit this hotel !

  • @abishev
    @abishev 5 лет назад +86

    Surely, Europe's highest hotel is in Amsterdam.

  • @TheExodusV
    @TheExodusV Год назад +109

    Would have liked to seen more of the hotel

    • @bmolitor615
      @bmolitor615 Год назад +2

      it's like you didn't watch the video...

    • @liamdillon9465
      @liamdillon9465 Год назад +6

      Did you see how big it is? I don't think there's much more to see my guy

    • @kostakondratenko185
      @kostakondratenko185 Год назад +7

      Me too - I was dissapointed I couldn't see the room layouts.. but great video nonetheless!

    • @mathieuchatelet5603
      @mathieuchatelet5603 9 месяцев назад

      @@kostakondratenko185 it's not that spectaculair. Typical small mountain hut rooms with bunk beds

    • @funjunkyy
      @funjunkyy 9 месяцев назад

      @@kostakondratenko185 These small beds at 5:45 were the rooms. I think it only has rooms for mutliple people with beds stacked on each other. Because its not a hotel, its a hut. Big difference.

  • @hansmaulwurf8858
    @hansmaulwurf8858 Год назад +111

    It's NOT a hotel! It'a a mountain hut for mountaineers without running water and with multi-bedded rooms with incredibly uncomfortable beds (apart from the fact that you will hardly sleep anyway due to the high altitude and the lack of acclimatisation). The "library" is simply a shelf of books containing primarily information about the climbing routes on the surrounding mountains (by this standard every house or flat has a "library"). The "bar" is also no bar, but just a counter where you can do everything, from ordering food, paying your stay, etc. Calling this a hotel is like calling an Amish Buggy a car.

    • @MuppetsSh0w
      @MuppetsSh0w Год назад

      Shut up dude

    • @jonathanbuckley3254
      @jonathanbuckley3254 Год назад +9

      It's a hotel

    • @mikeyankofsky8003
      @mikeyankofsky8003 Год назад +2

      LOL 😂

    • @YOUENNNN
      @YOUENNNN Год назад +11

      Absurd comment, a lot of hotels in the world have uncomfortable beds, no library and no bar at all ! You pay a bed for a night that's an hotel end of discussion

    • @paperinik69
      @paperinik69 Год назад +1

      Right because hotels don't have bunk beds🤡

  • @sivayamsiva9343
    @sivayamsiva9343 Год назад +9

    Very beautiful mountain views, really great thanks for sharing 👌

  • @nickwoodward819
    @nickwoodward819 5 лет назад +70

    How do you do a video on this and not mention how they built it? XD

    • @googles2222
      @googles2222 3 года назад +7

      My guess would be they probably didn't care enough about the workers back then so most likely there is no written record of how

    • @boiadedios
      @boiadedios 3 года назад +10

      @@googles2222 its because we are Italians and we don’t care….we build it with donkeys and men with big balls…this u see in he video is the second built with helicopters….u can find videos on the tube…i ve been 5 times there….every mountain lover need to go

  • @zulharriansyahsyamsul4024
    @zulharriansyahsyamsul4024 2 года назад +6

    Very charming mountain view

  • @amandhillon1182
    @amandhillon1182 5 лет назад +6

    Fantastic!! Would love to go here

  • @henriks5008
    @henriks5008 Год назад +2

    6:00 Zermatt in the background to the left. Nice view!

  • @andrewhurstcars
    @andrewhurstcars Год назад +4

    Went there a few years ago in April ski touring. It’s not formally open then, but they leave a room open for emergency use.

  • @AwosAtis
    @AwosAtis Год назад +8

    "Upper class pursuit?" I guess that rules me out!

  • @zaynalsikder9213
    @zaynalsikder9213 Год назад +1

    Love Italian mountain hut hotel♥

  • @jonathanbuckley3254
    @jonathanbuckley3254 Год назад +52

    Little bit disappointing. Was looking forward to more footage of the Hotel not just the view

    • @forzer456
      @forzer456 Год назад +1

      Guess it is left for you to discover

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll Год назад +3

      it's a refuge not a hotel.

  • @nobodyisbest
    @nobodyisbest 8 месяцев назад +2

    It's not a hotel, it's a refuge.

  • @michaelsiengo1
    @michaelsiengo1 Год назад +2

    Awesome

  • @SK22520
    @SK22520 Год назад +5

    But how?? But did they built this thing here? How do they get all their supplies?? How did they install the wifi?? How does the plumbing work?? Honestly, THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERING!!!!

    • @alessandro-zy3gz
      @alessandro-zy3gz Год назад +1

      I ve been there. Supply are get by helicopter and there is not water for utility you poop in a hole and no shower. There is internet and phone connection bc there is a small weather lab so there is communication antennas

    • @erik3371
      @erik3371 7 месяцев назад

      Are you American or something?

  • @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14
    @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14 5 лет назад +2

    Cool story. Thanks.

  • @flowers42195
    @flowers42195 Год назад +8

    E' finito il pane. Scendo in paese a prenderlo 🥶🥶

  • @johnbrown4568
    @johnbrown4568 Год назад +2

    To each their own. I'm good with Nashville.

  • @joealphons5772
    @joealphons5772 5 месяцев назад +1

    Is there running water there? Showers? Where would the water come from?

  • @spraakkanon
    @spraakkanon 3 года назад +6

    Right on he summit so safe from avalanches.

  • @foobar9220
    @foobar9220 Год назад +2

    This is the grand finale of the Monte Rosa tour (or spaghetti tour as it is commonly known). After spending a week bagging 4000ers, one sleeps right at the summit before climbing the Dufourspitze, the highest point of Switzerland and second-highest mountain of the Alps, and returning to civilization for a long awaited shower ;)

    • @danielled5207
      @danielled5207 Год назад

      Spaghetti has nothing to do with the culture and food of the huge Alpline areas of Italy.

  • @somnathde8680
    @somnathde8680 Год назад

    Thanks.

  • @sjscoach
    @sjscoach Год назад

    Crazy!!!!!

  • @ultragarrison
    @ultragarrison 4 месяца назад

    How did they manage to get their supplies?

  • @ryanlafleur
    @ryanlafleur 5 лет назад +11

    How long can you stay, how much does it cost and how o you make reservations?

    • @snoman1999
      @snoman1999 5 лет назад

      www.rifugimonterosa.it/en

  • @SKF358
    @SKF358 Год назад +2

    How do they supply it?

  • @Prof_awesome
    @Prof_awesome Год назад +1

    A bit short, was interesting to watch, would have been cool to see more tho!

  • @Scyths1
    @Scyths1 Год назад +2

    Genuine question, I'm assuming as you didnt talk about it, that you have jo safe way of snowboarding as you cant know for sure if there is solid ground underneath ?

    • @floimschnee4275
      @floimschnee4275 Год назад +2

      There is no fully safe snowboarding/skiing over crevasses (and in offpiste conditions in general).
      You need to know how to deal with crevasse and avalanche rescue.

  • @floralhandshake6376
    @floralhandshake6376 Год назад +4

    It would have been interesting to learn how they service the 'hotel. How do they get food and drink up there. What do they do with waste etc

    • @markanthony3275
      @markanthony3275 Год назад +1

      You've heard the expression that excrement rolls downhill? I think you know where the waste goes now LOL!

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll Год назад +1

      @@markanthony3275 human waste, yes most likely. The is taken by the helicopter.

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll Год назад

      helicopter.

    • @funjunkyy
      @funjunkyy 9 месяцев назад

      They use a helicopter flying back and forth every few days.

  • @riverkelly9374
    @riverkelly9374 2 года назад +3

    ugh the chord progression in this video is absolutely my life ahah

  • @ingmarbeldman
    @ingmarbeldman Год назад +1

    ok. and how does it look inside????

  • @naeemsafdar4349
    @naeemsafdar4349 Год назад +3

    viewers are invited to northern parts of Pakistan the mountaineers' heaven where you can easily cycle upto 16000 feet above sea level and find hotels nearby.

  • @GoofieNewfie69
    @GoofieNewfie69 Год назад +1

    Eating pizza with fork and knife. hehehe That place is way to posh for me.

  • @brianlam257
    @brianlam257 Год назад +1

    You didn't give us a full tour!!!

  • @joelevans2513
    @joelevans2513 9 месяцев назад +1

    "HOTEL?"

  • @nessnness
    @nessnness Год назад +1

    I wonder if it doesn't risk blowing away with storms

  • @CSmart-ln1qm
    @CSmart-ln1qm Год назад

    I'd be afraid the hut would fall off the mountain.

  • @aledyna
    @aledyna 3 года назад +15

    Its not an hotel

    • @jacksonjames7177
      @jacksonjames7177 Год назад +1

      Hey everyone, look, random guy in the RUclips comment section says he knows something the people that built it, and go there and run it, don’t !

    • @pieter-basbeijer5781
      @pieter-basbeijer5781 Год назад +3

      @@jacksonjames7177 The people that run it don't call it a hotel either. Actually I have never heard anyone call a mountain hut a hotel before ever.

    • @floimschnee4275
      @floimschnee4275 Год назад +1

      ​@@jacksonjames7177they call it "hut"...

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 Год назад

      @@jacksonjames7177you know, maybe some people visiting are not “random”. Climbers also use RUclips.
      It’s a mountain hut. Google the term.

  • @europana7
    @europana7 Год назад +2

    How’s the WiFi? … must be using satellite as main connectivity? At 15000 ft, that’s higher than the 13500 ft skydivers exit the plane !!

  • @haruruben
    @haruruben 9 месяцев назад

    Who built it?

  • @tomlibuda229
    @tomlibuda229 Год назад

    Snowbird 😊

  • @clairepg
    @clairepg Год назад +7

    Calling it a hotel and pretending it to be like a normal hotel is annoying otherwise interesting

  • @michaellan78
    @michaellan78 Год назад +1

    I guess the hotel doesn’t have valet parking 😅

  • @Letitslam
    @Letitslam Год назад

    It isn t a hotel it s a mountain refuge for climbers and alpinists 😂, there's a lot in italy in all alps, but are a places where you can recover for succesive climb or descent

  • @a.h.s5152
    @a.h.s5152 Год назад +1

    Wonder how they could breath being that high up in the air.

    • @bmolitor615
      @bmolitor615 Год назад

      not well. yer gonna be playing roulette with who gets altitude sickness, and that's not comfortable.

  • @carlo9330
    @carlo9330 Год назад +3

    er...three peaks, not two, are higher than margherita. he's forgetting Zumstein. hard to forget really, given that its right next to him🤣

  • @TuxedoChimps
    @TuxedoChimps Год назад +1

    Can you ski down?

  • @alanrbickerton
    @alanrbickerton Год назад +1

    Sleep walking is not an option

  • @stellae.1745
    @stellae.1745 Год назад +1

    How do they get supplies up there (food, drinks etc.)? I`m thinking helicopters, but i`m not sure

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll Год назад +2

      Helicopter yes. Also used to take out the trash on the way down.

  • @fuglbird
    @fuglbird Год назад +1

    It's an alpine hut - not a hotel. We have many in Europe, where we have mountains. Not like the UK, where you only have hills but many hotels. Only Brits gets altitude sickness at 4554 meters. This is not Cumbria. Get over it. 42 years ago my mother and I walked a bit in Scotland. We met an English "expedition" in full mountaineering outfits. They were very silent when they saw us. We just said hello and turned around. We didn't want to embarrass them.

  • @alpinisme07
    @alpinisme07 Год назад +1

    a mountain hut is not a hotel..

  • @riccardomontelatici1909
    @riccardomontelatici1909 Год назад +2

    Solo un giornale da quella parte di mondo poteva chiamarlo hotel 🤬🤬🤬🤬

  • @megalospathi
    @megalospathi Год назад +1

    Thats not a hotel but a hostel

  • @silverliteway
    @silverliteway Год назад

    what about gouter hut mont blanc

  • @sirhenryb3197
    @sirhenryb3197 Год назад

    nice but not for me i get sick in hights

  • @great-garden-watch
    @great-garden-watch Год назад

    Why?

  • @nicolascodro3361
    @nicolascodro3361 4 месяца назад

    It’s not a hotel. It’s a mountain hut.

  • @cheaserceaser
    @cheaserceaser Год назад +1

    Why don’t they take a limo or something to hotel?

  • @loranovabridal1880
    @loranovabridal1880 Год назад

    @drewbinsky story for you

  • @wayneyd2
    @wayneyd2 Год назад

    Warning to visitor. You should accumulate for the high altitude. Altitude sickness is real.

  • @snooslee6508
    @snooslee6508 5 лет назад +2

    It's not so good for hotel"....it's good for meditation center

    • @benja_mint
      @benja_mint Год назад +1

      these mountain huts are always noisy, always bustling with coming and going. all night people are snoring and farting, and at 2am people already start getting up because they are trying to ascend a peak or something. meditation center is not the first thing that springs to mind, but maybe!

  • @cvn6555
    @cvn6555 Год назад +1

    Nope. No thanks. Never. Not even by helicopter.

  • @infiad1275
    @infiad1275 2 года назад +8

    Would have been nice to see what a room looked like in that "hotel". Geez, I feel robbed.

    • @Kuchenwurst
      @Kuchenwurst 2 года назад +6

      It's mostly bunk beds. There's 70 beds for wanderers and scientists. You don't walk up a mountain for the luxury of a king size bed and a whirlpool.

    • @infiad1275
      @infiad1275 2 года назад +2

      @@Kuchenwurst I understand that. I'd still like to see where I'm laying my head for the night.

    • @Happycamper808
      @Happycamper808 Год назад +2

      They show the bunk beds here 5:46

  • @starcrib
    @starcrib Год назад

    No thank's. 🔳⬜️⬜️🔳

  • @JohnDoe-xu2vx
    @JohnDoe-xu2vx Год назад

    No thanks

  • @appomattoxross6751
    @appomattoxross6751 9 месяцев назад

    Silly.

  • @justthimu1683
    @justthimu1683 Год назад +1

    Knife and fork on pizza😮 "Do not recommend this channel"

  • @jasonmcguire7846
    @jasonmcguire7846 4 года назад

    The highest hotel I thought was in Russia

  • @TR-nw8hz
    @TR-nw8hz Год назад

    Ah yes a pilgrimmage. I mean not a real one but still

  • @AndrewMann205
    @AndrewMann205 Год назад

    Not sure why it was not mentioned that you can get there by cable car. You do not have to climb.

  • @benja_mint
    @benja_mint Год назад +2

    i always think maybe the queen was named after the pizza, cos it was her fathers favorite pizza or whatever

  • @withpikachu2402
    @withpikachu2402 Год назад +1

    Taking a cable car is cheating

  • @JnstBrimstone
    @JnstBrimstone Год назад

    How do you fo a "pilgrimage" to a hotel? Is this some "hotel cult"? Bowing down to the god of hotels?

  • @superdeluxesmell
    @superdeluxesmell Год назад

    So it’s just a typical mountain refuge? I thought it was going to be a nice hotel. Meh.

  • @TheZachary86
    @TheZachary86 5 лет назад +4

    Not much of a hotel. This isn’t impressive when you’ve been to nepal

    • @AlexMafija
      @AlexMafija 5 лет назад +12

      Nepal isnt in europe

    • @TheZachary86
      @TheZachary86 5 лет назад +1

      nick from96
      Wasn’t arguing that Nepal was in Europe. Was saying that this is nothing compared to Nepal
      They made the “hotel” sound so majestic or something

    • @snoman1999
      @snoman1999 5 лет назад +11

      Mate I've been to Nepal and slept in far less luxurious conditions than on offer here 😆 ? Tea Houses can be very basic.. I think the location here is the prize, rather than the class of accommodation... and far more accesible 🤔
      Lets not knock what looks like a FANTASTIC experience..

    • @davidetranquillini4864
      @davidetranquillini4864 Год назад +2

      why would any mountaineer be looking for a hotel at 4000+mt? a bed, a warm soup n someone waking u up in the wee hours of the morning, when its time to hit to path, is all one should ask for

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 Год назад

      They just called it by an incorrect term.
      It’s a mountain hut.

  • @EggBastion
    @EggBastion 5 лет назад

    Grrrr, something somethingsomething, bloody remoaners...
    When's Brexit? I'm hungry.