This book describes just 100 hikes out of the many thousands possible in the Alps, with carefully chosen mountain huts providing the focus for each hike. With a geographical span in Europe that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy?s Gran Paradiso to the little-known T?rnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzb?heler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, each day-hike and its associated mountain hut has been especially selected to show the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are hikes to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Most of the routes avoid climbing of a technical nature, beyond the odd scramble aided by a fixed rope.