My hike along The Tour du Mont Blanc, one of Europe’s classic long distance trails. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.Â
It’s been a long two days in the driving seat, it turns out the Alps are a long way from ...
Day 1 Les Houches to Refuge du Fioux. The storm eventually passed over in the early hours leaving behind a ...
Day 2 Refuge du Fioux to Refuge de Nant Borrant. The Tour du Mont Blanc and the Alps in general ...
Day 3 Refuge de Nant Borrant to Les Chapeiux. If day one of the Tour du Mont Blanc was an ...
Day 4 Les Chapieux to Rifugio Elisabetta. The small village of Les Chapieux sits at the western most point of ...
Day 5 Rifugio Elisabetta to Courmayeur. Dawn brings with it another gloriously sunny day on the Tour du Mont Blanc ...
“The beauty of adventure is to dream of it, to give air to the imagination, then you also try to ...
Day 7 Rifugio Bonatti to La Fouly. Today we will enter the third country on our walk around Mont Blanc ...
Day 8 La Fouly to Champex. For the last week we’ve been in the heart of the mountains. Walking along ...
Day 9 Champex to Trient. When we step outside to boot up for day nine of our Tour du Mont ...
Day 10 Trient to Tre Le Champ. Today we have the third and final border crossing of our Tour du ...
Day 11 Tré Le Champ to Refuge la Flégère. Stepping onto the wooden balcony that adjoins our room at 6am ...
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For ...
Day 5 Rifugio Elisabetta to Courmayeur.
Dawn brings with it another gloriously sunny day on the Tour du Mont Blanc. We are now in the Italian Alps and the rising sun is shining directly down Val Veny casting long shadows and turning the rivulets and pools of Lac de Combal into silver ribbons and mirrors laid out on the valley floor. Our stay at the iconic Rifugio Elisabetta has been a good one and the experience is stored in the memory for future happy recall.
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