Sitting at 1,808 metres on the Anterne plateau, this mountain refuge is a natural staging point on the route between Sixt and the Lac d'Anterne, and onward to the Col d'Anterne and the Chamonix valley. The hut was rebuilt in 1981 and takes its name from Alfred Wills — a Victorian barrister, High Court judge, and passionate mountaineer who served as president of the Alpine Club from 1863 to 1865. Wills first came to Sixt in 1850 and later built a chalet on the plateau he called Eagle's Nest; the refuge now occupies the same high meadow. The walk up from Sixt takes around three and a half hours and gains about 1,100 metres of height.