Etna in Winter
- Winter trekking, skiing and snow-shoe excursions for small groups or individuals -








For those who are prepared, we offer guided skiing or snow-shoe excursions of varying difficulty. The reward is a wonderful experience to be on an active volcano while being active yourself.
- Skiing on an active volcano
- White dream landscape
- Stunning views
- 1 day Snow Hiking Tour
- Active adventure
- Experienced mountain guide
Snowshoes/Ski Summit Tour
Duration: 5-7 hours
Winter tour on the snow-covered slopes of the volcano up to the summit craters
Mountain Traverse on Ski
Duration: 5-7 hours
Alpine skiing experience required
Long ski traverse from south to north across the summit craters.
Valle del Bove with crampons and ice axe
Duration: 5-7 hours
Maximum 3 persons
Exciting, long descent to the "Valle del Bove" by using crampons,ice axes and ropes.
Difficulty: Moderate-Challenging
Group size: 1-12
Duration: 4-7 hours
Dates:
Custom and group datesPrice (p.p.): see details
Included:
- Certified mountain guide.
Snowshoes/Ski Summit Tour
Duration: 5-7 hours
Day 1: Snowshoe or Ski Summit Tour

Conditions permitting, ascent to the summit craters.
Mountain Traverse on Ski
Duration: 5-7 hours
Alpine skiing experience required
Day 1: Mountain Traverse on Ski

With good visibility the top offers a spectacular view like no other.
Breathtaking descent on Etna's North side, passing by the magnificent plateau of "Piano delle Concazze".
Transfer back by car to Etna South (departure point).
Valle del Bove with crampons and ice axe
Duration: 5-7 hours
Maximum 3 persons
Day 1: Valle del Bove with crampons and ice axe

Prices for private tours at custom dates:
Prices per person | Price per person (€) at group size of: | SRS (*) | |||||
PAX | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
Mountain Ski Traverse | 450 € ? | 225 € ? | 150 € ? | 120 € ? | 100 € ? | 90 € ? | inquire |
Snowshoes/Ski Summit Tour or Valle del Bove with crampons and ice axe | 380 € ? | 190 € ? | 130 € ? | 100 € ? | 90 € ? | 80 € ? | inquire |
(*) Single room supplement |
Included:
- Certified mountain guide.
Not included:
- Arrival to departure point
- Jeep and/or cable car transfers
- Personal equipment
- Snowshoe and ski equipment rental (skis, boots, poles, skins)
Additional info:

Hi Emanuela,
... it was such an exciting experience for us...
for me the best mountain-experience I have ever had!
Best regards
Jutta
Beautiful memories


Emmanuella,
thanks again for giving us so many beautiful memories, Antonio was great and we had such a good time with you both.
Guillaume.
(Etna Summit Tour)
Wonderful Etna tour


Hi Emanuela
Once again a big thank you to you and Rosario for the wonderful Etna tour. My son and I we really enjoyed it. It was impressive to see the volcano and we learned a lot - for sure an experience we will not forget.
best regards
Ralf Schäfer
(Etna Summit Tour)


Hallo Emanuela,
thank you for preparing und providing the photos. When we are looking at the photos we remember the great experience on the Etna.
Thank you for organizing this event for us.
...
Regards from Hamburg
Roland
(Etna Summit Tour)
Unforgettable experience



Dear Emanuela,
thank you very much for the amazing pictures, you could catch great moments of the tour. We would like to thank you and Rosario for the whole tour, it was an unforgettable experience.
Best regards,
Andras
(Etna Summit Tour)



Dear Emanuela
Many thanks for the photos. They are great.
...
We really enjoy the hike with you and Rosario. Please say thank you to him again.
Regards
Tersina
(Etna Summit Tour)
We will never forget it!



Hello Emanuela;
I would like to thank you very much for one of the best experiences we have had. The excursion was incredible, we will never forget it. Please thank Rosario on our beharf.
We will highly recomend this tour to our relatives and friends and maybe, why not, come back our selves again to repete the experience!
We are looking foward to seeing the fotos you took, thank you once again for that as well.
...
Best regards
Victoria
(Etna Summit Tour)


Ciao Emanuela,
grazie per le bellissime foto.
...
Anche per noi è stato un grande piacere per fare questo cammino con voi.
Il giorno dopo abbiamo incontrato un'altra coppia al nostro hotel
che ci ha detto che volevano sul Etna.
Li abbiamo informati della nostra escursione con voi,
e detto loro che dovrebbero darci il benvenuto.
....
Cordiali saluti
Peter
(Etna Traverse Tour)
One of the most memorable experiences

Hi Emanuela and thank you again for your and Rosario's expert guiding on Sunday. I found it one of the most memorable experiences in Sicily, even if my companions struggled. ....
warm regards Monica Pfeffer (Etna Summit Craters Tour)
"I believe we will be talking about it for the next few years..."

"Hi Tom
...
Once again, we really appreciated with your arrangement and guidance. It was the most enjoyable and the highlight of our trip.
It had also opened our eyes to see how wonderful and powerful our planet is.
We still have been talking about it. I believe we will be talking about it for the next few years. I don't think it will be a forgettable experience in my life. Poor me, it will be very hard to find another experience as good as this again. Unless your will take us to somewhere else on earth.
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We would also thank for your organisation with Rosario to be our volcano guide. He was amazing. Hope we can visit him once again in the future.
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Thank you very much. Please keep in touch and take care.
Cheers
Tony / Moon / Joan / Eva"
(Tony S. from Hong Kong, about the Etna Volcano Special tour)
A great TRIP to Etna with Rosario
"... btw we had A great TRIP to Etna with Rosario, so much so it has really inspired my son to do Geology in Imperial College in London this September.
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Cheers, Michelle" (Private Tours on Etna)
...thank you for the wonderful experience that we had... (Trekking Tour on Etna)



Dear Tom, we've just returned from Sicily and would like to thank you for the wonderful experience that we had. We had great weather and could descend into Etna's main crater. Your "variant 1" turned out to be the perfect challenge for our 9 year old daughter, although she found the craters and the fumes a bit scary. My wife and I rank this trip as one of our top 3 experiences so far!
Rosario was a perfect guide: he made us feel at ease and safe, provided just enough explanations without sounding like the stereotypical tourist guide and he was just 100% a pro.
Minor correction: the guides do have boots, backpacks and jackets that your customers can borrow.
I've enclosed a few pictures of us on Mt Etna.
Best regards Sven Jorissen"
a wonderful excursion at the Etna
"Hi Tom,
I would like with this email to thank Volcano Discovery and the Team (Specially Rosario Basile) for a wonderful excursion at the Etna.
I took nice photos which I would like to share at the web page of Volcano Discovery. What shall I do?
Best Regards,
Gabriela Marcano"
... about a trekking tour on Etna
"Hi Tom,
I am sorry that it has taken me so long to email you with feedback from the trip Janet smith and Michael bailey took in June with your guide Rosario to do the full traverse of Etna. It was fantastic and something we will never forget. It was a hard walk but very enjoyable and Rosario was fantastic, he is very knowledgeable, kind and friendly, we were like friends by the end of the walk. Please make sure that you feed back this to him...
Thank you for all your help and we would definitely recommend you to others
Kind Regards
Janet and Mick" (UK)
Feeback from a private group tour on Etna

"Dear Tom,
On Nov. 15, 2009 a group of 11 people went up the Etna with our guide Rosario starting from Rifugio Sapienza.
It was the first vulcano tour for all of us and we were all impressed what we saw during the day: It was awesome to see the boiling craters on the top of the Etna and feeling the heat of this impressive active vulcano. The highlight was for sure the currently open lava spot on the Eastern side of the Etna, it was amazing to see and to feel the power of the earth.
We really have to thank you and Vulcano Dicsovery for the perfect organisation and we also have to thank our guide Rosario, who took care very well of the large group and provided us with very useful and detailed information on vulcanology and geology of the Etna. Rosario thank you very much for this perfect adventure tour!
Here I will also attach 1 foto of our group walking up the Etna on this day.
Thank you again for the organisation!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards
Thomas Fruhmann"
Michelle about her tour to Etna volcano

"Greetings, Tom!
Enclosed is the link for the photos from our trip. It was WONDERFUL. Please pass our greetings to Rosario who is such an amazing person. I have become a volcano-holic!
Michelle"
See Michelle's pctures on Shutterfly
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"Tom, Had a great tour, Etna was more than impressive, just fantastic - like a moonscape up there. ..." (J Perston, UK)
".. Just got back from Sicily. I had a very enjoyable time even though Etna has been shy and did not want to put on a performance. On the Monday I went round to the North side visiting the Grotta del ghiaccio, first time wearing crampons. The second day was spent in the Valle del Bove. The third day spent at the summit craters. The fourth day I joined Marta visiting the Alcantara Gorge, Taormina and spending the evening and next day in Catania.
As usual, Marta maintained the professional standards I have come to expect from the "Volcano Discovery" team, and I expect the three other clients felt the same way." (S. Banfield, UK)
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I will definately be joining Tom again later this year to visit Java and woud recommend Volcano Discovery to anyone with an interest in hiking volcanoes." (Andrew Jackson, UK)