The villages of the La Grave and Villar d' Arène accomodate you in a place of exception.
Majestic "the Meije queen" and her glaciers étincellants,
overhang the villages of the Low register and Villar d' Arène top of its 3 983 m.
Emblematic mountain of the Alps it is a high place of the alpinism.
The winter, the northern face of Meije and its small valleys, invite you to practise a ski-mountaineering whose quality is single in Europe. Many skiers say of this site "it is most beautiful!". They come from America, Zealand News, Norway…
Low register - Meije belongs to the privileged circle of the great sites impossible to circumvent of the ski world. Since the top of the cable car of the small valleys of Meije, to 3500 m, virgin snow is offered in abundance on 2150 m of uneven not stop and 9 km of descent.
Parallel to the large ski, opposite north Meije, three sites of ski, Chazelet, Villar d' Arène and the Collar of Lautaret, allow you to begin and progress in ski (of the green track to the red track), to ski without concern, to accompany the children in their first traces while benefitting from the splendid landscapes by Oisans
The Low register it is also a high place of the cascade of ice. More than 130 different routes are indexedS
The summer leave to discovered the inheritance the hamlets and villages.
For the attentive hiker, the traces of the rural activity of this canton of mountain are read with each turning of path: staged terraces, sheep-folds of stone to the hollows of the mountain pastures, herds of cows and sheep, structures traditional.
The plate of Emparis, vis-a-vis the étincelants glaciers of Meije, constitutes a privileged site of walks and of discovered of an exceptionally rich and varied flora.
With the country of Meije, the sportsmen will be able to devote themselves to multiple activities: alpinism, via ferrata, canyoning, parapente, VTT, rafting, rando, fishing, climbing…
