Walking the Tour de Mont Blanc 2010-2013

Walking the Tour de Mont

Blanc2010 - 2013

Heather & Julia

2010 Les Houches to La Flegere

Climbing up through the forest to Le Christ Roi 1196M

View over Les Houches from Le Christ Roi 1196M

Refuge de Bellechat 2152M

Refuge de Bellechat 2152M

Walking to Le Brevent 2300M

Cable Car at Le Brevent 2526M

Café at Plan Praz 2300M

Refuge La Flegere 1875M

Lac Blanc 2352M

Lac Blanc 2352M

Café Flore walking from La Flegere down to Chamonix

2010 Arriving back at Les Houches

Shall we do it again

next year?

Accommodation on the Tour de Mont Blanc

Hotel Slalom, Les Houches

Refuge de Bellechat

Chalet Bon-Abri, Champex

Leave your boots at the door

Refuge de Bellechat

Tartiflette

Tarte aux Mytilles

2011 Flégère to Champex Lac

Leaving Refuge La Flegere 1875M

Tre-Le Champ 1417M

Lunch at Tre-Le Champ 1417M

Above Tre-Le Champ 2200M

L’Aiguillette de Posettes 2200M

Scary Alpine cows with big horns!

Refuge Col de Balme 2190M

Refuge Col de Balme 2190M

Glacier du Trient 2600M

Descending to Chalet du Glacier

Chalet du Glacier 1583M

Catching the train at Martigny to Champex Lac

Chalet Bon-Abri, Champex Lac 1440M

Champex Lac 1440M

Back at Chamonix

Altitude Sickness (and how to avoid it)

2012 to Champex Lac to Courmayeur

Leaving Champex Lac 1466M

Les Arlaches 1117M

On the Glacial Causeway 1610M

Skirting the river at Prayon 1600M

Hotel les Glaciers, La Fouly 1610M

Mule at Hotel Col de Fenetre, Ferret 1700M

Climbing above Ferret

La Peule 2071M

Eidelweiss or Thistle?

Grand Col Ferret 2537M

The orange elephant project

Rifugio Elena 20162M

Mules on the Val de Ferret

Looking along Val Ferret 1800M

Rifugio Bonatti 2025M

Walking from Rifugio Bonatti 2000M

Above Courmayeur 2000M

Arriving at Courmayeur

What Equipment do you need?

2013 Courmayeur to Les Houches

Cable car rescue above Courmayeur

Rifugio Maison Vielle 1956M

Picnic spot Mont Favre

Lac Combal

Rifugio Elizabetta 2195M

Rifugio Elizabetta 2195M

Casameta information centre 2500M

Casameta information centre 2500M

Col de la Seigne 2516M

Vallee des Glaciers 1780M

Auberge de la Nova at Les Chapieux 1554M

Walking up to Col du Bonhomme

Refuge Col de Bonhomme 2443M

Tete Nord de Fours 2756M

Col de Bonhomme 2329M

Coffee at Ref Nant Borrant 1460M

Notre Dame de la Gorge 1210M

Hotel Christiania, Le Contamines

Tresse

Auberge de Bionnassay 1300M

Col de Voza above Chamonix 1653M

We’ve finished the Tour de Mont Blanc!

Where shall we go next year?

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