Refuge des Dents du Midi
2884 m · sleeps 20 · Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt) · CH
You can walk to 2 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 50 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.
Refuge des Dents du Midi is an alpine hut at 2884 m in the Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt), CH. 2 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
How to book
You book Refuge des Dents du Midi directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
Or contact the hut directly: [email protected], +41 79 680 60 71.
Walkable from here
- Refuge le Peuty - 9h24, 28.19 km, +1784 m
- Refuge du Col de Balme - 9h46, 28.68 km, +2357 m
Times are estimates for an average fit hiker - terrain and conditions vary. Grades are the SAC hiking scale, judged the way the app judges them: the hardest ground that runs far enough to characterise the leg.
About Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt)
The Walker's Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt, the benchmark hut-to-hut traverse of the western Alps, crossing from France into Switzerland. Swiss huts book through the shared Alpenverein system with live availability, while the French refuges are a mix of individual hut pages and the FFCAM system. The cross-border split is the main planning friction, so book the Swiss huts as early as the winter before your walk.
Guides for this region: Planning the Walker's Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt
Planning a route through Refuge des Dents du Midi
Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: every night needs a bed, at a hut you can walk to from the one before, on consecutive dates, and one full night sends you back to the start. From Refuge des Dents du Midi there are 2 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt) network of 88 huts. HutScanner searches that network for a sequence that works on your dates, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time.
Refuge des Dents du Midi books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 50 huts in Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt) that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. Plan a multi-night route from Refuge des Dents du Midi.
If you plan trips through ChatGPT or Claude, they can run this same search for you without opening the app, over the regions HutScanner has reviewed by hand. How that works is described in using HutScanner with AI assistants, and the endpoint is documented in the OpenAPI spec.