Hiking The Tour Du Mont Blanc

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. 

The Tour du Mont Blanc - An Introduction
It’s been a long two days in the driving seat, it turns out the Alps are a long way from ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Les Houches to Refuge du Fioux
Day 1 Les Houches to Refuge du Fioux. The storm eventually passed over in the early hours leaving behind a ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Refuge du Fioux to Refuge de Nant Borrant
Day 2 Refuge du Fioux to Refuge de Nant Borrant. The Tour du Mont Blanc and the Alps in general ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Refuge de Nant Borrant to Les Chapeiux
Day 3 Refuge de Nant Borrant to Les Chapeiux. If day one of the Tour du Mont Blanc was an ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Les Chapieux to Rifugio Elisabetta
Day 4 Les Chapieux to Rifugio Elisabetta. The small village of Les Chapieux sits at the western most point of ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Rifugio Elisabetta to Courmayeur
Day 5 Rifugio Elisabetta to Courmayeur. Dawn brings with it another gloriously sunny day on the Tour du Mont Blanc ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti
“The beauty of adventure is to dream of it, to give air to the imagination, then you also try to ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Rifugio Bonatti to La Fouly
Day 7 Rifugio Bonatti to La Fouly. Today we will enter the third country on our walk around Mont Blanc ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - La Fouly to Champex
Day 8 La Fouly to Champex. For the last week we’ve been in the heart of the mountains. Walking along ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Champex to Trient
Day 9 Champex to Trient. When we step outside to boot up for day nine of our Tour du Mont ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Trient to Tre Le Champ
Day 10 Trient to Tre Le Champ. Today we have the third and final border crossing of our Tour du ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Tré Le Champ to Refuge la Flégère
Day 11 Tré Le Champ to Refuge la Flégère. Stepping onto the wooden balcony that adjoins our room at 6am ...
Tour du Mont Blanc - Refuge la Flégère to Chamonix
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For ...

 

Tour du Mont Blanc – Rifugio Elisabetta to Courmayeur

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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