From the UK to the Alps

Experience Stelvio. Furka. Grimsel. Nufenen. Gotthard. Grossglockner.

A British team running group, bike and bespoke trips to the great alpine passes, starting and ending in the UK.

Ways to travel

Five ways to take on the passes.

Six passes to build a week around.

The dense hairpin switchbacks of the Stelvio Pass

Italy2,757 m

Stelvio

Forty-eight numbered hairpins to the roof of the Eastern Alps.

The Furka Pass road snaking toward a glacier in Switzerland

Switzerland2,429 m

Furka

Glacier views and a hotel hung over the void, straight from a Bond film.

The Grimsel Pass road through grey granite past a turquoise reservoir

Switzerland2,164 m

Grimsel

A bare, lunar climb through granite and dammed reservoirs.

The Nufenen Pass road crossing a high wind-scoured col in Switzerland

Switzerland2,478 m

Nufenen

The highest pass that never leaves Switzerland, wild and wind-scoured.

The St. Gotthard Pass road winding up a green alpine valley

Switzerland2,106 m

Gotthard

A sweeping climb over one of the oldest north-to-south crossings in the Alps.

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road sweeping toward a glacier

Austria2,504 m

Grossglockner

A grand toll road, built for the drive and nothing else.

We are a small team with a long obsession: the roads most people only ever drive past. For more than a decade we have run trips over the great passes, on set dates for a group and one-off for a single family or a whole company. Every one starts and ends on this side of the Channel. You bring the car. We arrange every turn.

Founded 2011
An antique map of the Alps with a route traced in gold, a compass, driving gloves and an espresso

How a trip comes together

  1. Pick your kind of trip

    A set-date group or bike tour you book onto, or a bespoke trip planned just for you, your family or your company.

  2. We plan it end to end

    The passes, the hotels, the Channel crossing and a printed road book, all from your start in the UK. You approve it before anything is booked.

  3. You bring the wheels

    Arrive in your own car or on your own bike. The route, the beds and both crossings are arranged and waiting.

Every detail

Booked, checked and waiting for you.

A printed road book

Turn-by-turn notes for every pass, with the detours worth taking and the corners worth slowing for. Our free guides cover the rest.

A warmly lit alpine chalet hotel at dusk among snow-dusted pines

Hand-picked stays

Family-run inns and design-led chalets, chosen for the view from the breakfast table.

A sweeping alpine pass road crossing an open green col

The roads themselves

Cols, corniches and hairpins, sequenced into a route that earns every mile.

The Channel crossing

Eurotunnel or ferry, arranged both ways. Every trip starts and ends in the UK.

Luggage carried, on bikes

On our motorcycle trips a support van carries your bags from one pass to the next.

A still turquoise alpine lake at dawn reflecting pale mountain peaks

The quiet hours

Rest days built in by the water, away from the road, for when the driving has earned a pause.

They planned passes we would never have found, and booked the kind of small hotels you cannot turn up to online. All we had to do was drive.

Eleanor & Marcus Whitcombe Ten days in the Western Alps, Surrey

Start planning your trip

Tell us a little about the trip you have in mind. We will be in touch soon with first ideas and a rough sense of cost. No deposit until you love the plan.