- Along
TRAIL 7C
, which leads to Alta Luce, just before reaching the final bell, stands the “new” bivouac Passera, which opened in July 2026.
Location of Passera Bivouac
The new shelter under construction, July 2025
- The bivouac is named after the mountain guide Remo Passera, who died in 1970. The first shelter was swept away by a storm in 1983, apparently because the door had been left open by mistake.
The remains of the “old” bivouac Passera, before the new one was built.
- Remo Passera was a great mountain enthusiast from Vigevano who, having moved to Gressoney-La-Trinité out of love and become a mountain guide there, was among the architects of the resort’s winter development. Here is an article from December 14, 1957, mentioning the newly established Punta Jolanda chairlift.
- In these articles from July 20 and 21, 1970, the account of the tragedy in which he lost his life on Castore.
Here is the transcript of the two articles.
July 20, 1970
July 21, 1970
- Here is the first shelter in use (photo by Mario Gremmo):
The Passera bivouac (photo by Mario Gremmo)
- The First Bivouac, Again (photo by Mario Gremmo)
The Passera bivouac (photo by Mario Gremmo)
- Once again ,the first bivouac from Gressoney, Ayas, Valtournenche, Zanichelli, 1985 (photoby Carlo Dellarole):
Il bivacco Passera (foto di Carlo Dellarole)
Just above the remains of the Passera bivouac can be seen remains of another masonry construction. They are what remains of a hunting lodge belonging to Baron Peccoz, visible in this photo from 1894 when he was visited by Queen Margaret with her retinue (photo taken from Matterhorn and Monte Rosa, by Alessandro Gogna and Marco Milani, 2007):
Baron Peccoz’s hunting lodge
- Loriano Bartalini recently sent me these wonderful photos he took in 1980 near the Passera Shelter.
