Lac de Moiry

High in the Val d’Anniviers, Lac de Moiry feels like a reservoir carved from pure glacier light. The moment you arrive, the turquoise water hits you — an unreal, electric blue formed by the mineral-rich melt of the Moiry Glacier. The huge dam curves across the valley like a concrete horizon, holding back a lake that looks almost too bright to be real.

Above the shoreline, trails wind along ridges and moraines, leading you deeper into a world of raw alpine drama. The mountains here rise sharply — sharp granite teeth, broken icefields, and ridgelines that feel close enough to touch. Hikes around the lake offer sweeping panoramas, but the real magic comes when you climb higher: the path to the Moiry Hut, the long traverse toward the glacier tongue, or the lofty balcony paths that reveal the full scale of this icy world.

Despite its remote feel, Lac de Moiry is accessible, welcoming hikers, climbers, and ferrata adventurers into an alpine amphitheater shaped by ice and time. On quiet days, the silence settles like a blanket; on stormy ones, clouds race low across the water, turning the turquoise to steel. It’s a place where nature shows its contrasts boldly — calm and savage, serene and powerful, delicate and immense.