The Saleina Hut ( French: ''Cabane de Saleina'', formerly spelled ''Saleinaz'') is a

mountain hut A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are us ...

in the

Swiss Alps The Alps, Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main Physica ...

at 2,691 meters above sea level. It can be reached from the

Val Ferret Val Ferret is the name shared by two valleys separated by the Col Ferret, a pass on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The valleys lie southeast of Mont Blanc Massif. The Swiss valley drains northeast towards Orsières and on into the R ...

. The hut lies above the

Saleina Glacier The Saleina Glacier (, formerly spelled ''Saleinaz'') is a long glacier (2002) situated on the north-eastern edge of the Mont Blanc Massif in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It flows in a roughly north-easterly direction from the Aiguille ...

near the

Aiguille d'Argentière The Aiguille d'Argentière () is a mountain in the Mont Blanc Massif, Mont Blanc massif on the border between France and Switzerland. The second highest summit of the Aiguille d'Argentière is the prominent rock-tower ''Flèche Rousse'' () south ...

in the Mont Blanc Massif, and has places for 48 people and is wardened between mid-June to mid-September.

External links

Web page of the Swiss Alpine ClubCabane de Saleina on French IGN mapping portal
Mountain huts in Switzerland Mountain huts in the Alps {{Valais-geo-stub