Discover the alpine network
Every mountain hut in one immersive map.
Lost in the Alps brings together open geographic data, satellite imagery, and community updates to help hikers plan unforgettable nights in the high country. Filter, search, and navigate 8,000+ huts across the Alpine arc and beyond.
Trusted numbers, refreshed weekly.
Our automated scrapers unite official Alpine Club sources with community-maintained registries. Track the scale of the dataset and monitor data quality in real time.
Plan faster with richer context.
From offline topo tiles to emergency contact info, the interactive map surfaces the details you need before you set out. Here is a preview of what is inside.
Dial in elevation, season, and capacity.
Filter huts by altitude, booking requirements, open seasons, or amenities, and export your shortlist to GPX for offline navigation.
See data confidence at a glance.
Each hut includes provenance tags, last verification timestamps, and automated flagging for incomplete metadata so you can judge reliability quickly.
Layer topography and emergency info.
Switch between topographic, satellite, and avalanche overlays, or surface nearby rescue stations and weather links in one click.
Explore the interactive hut map.
Access the full-screen interactive map with advanced filtering, search tools, and detailed hut information. Best experienced in full-screen mode for optimal navigation.
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8,000+ Mountain Huts Await
Filter by country, altitude, and capacity. Search by name. Export routes. All in an immersive full-screen experience.
Open Full Screen Map →Map Features: Interactive filters by 41 countries • Search by name • Altitude & capacity filters • Detailed popup information • Export to KMZ • Source filtering
Open data pipeline, open outcomes.
Everything powering Lost in the Alps is reproducible. We publish scraper scripts, raw databases, and cleaning notebooks so you can audit the pipeline or build on top of it.
Mountain Huts by Country
Source blend
- Refuges.info - 5,250 huts in French Alps
- Mountainhuts.info - 1,343 huts across Europe
- Boudy.info - 889 huts in the Alps region
- Mountain-huts.net - 660 huts in the Balkans
Data access
- SQLite database:
data/mountain_huts.db -
Data files:
website/data/stats.json&huts.json - Interactive map:
map.html - Full documentation in
docs/folder
Quality checks
- Automatic deduplication across coordinates and name variants
- Elevation sanity checks via SRTM-30 terrain models
- Manual review queue for newly reported huts
Stay in the loop
- Changelog updated with every pipeline run
- Issue tracker for data corrections and enhancements
- Monthly newsletter featuring new routes and huts
Help the community map the mountains.
Share a missing hut, report updated pricing, or plug your planning tools into the open dataset. Lost in the Alps grows with every contribution from guides, volunteers, and hikers like you.
Found an issue? CheckCHANGELOG.md for updates or
report problems in the repository.