tour mont blanc alpine
(TMB)

Duration: 11 days, 10 nights

Countries: Switzerland - France - Italy

Mileage: 208

Ascent: 11,780 meters

This time no Scottish adventure but this world-famous "trough hike" through 3 countries in equally beautiful surroundings.

Plan was, again, to go to Scotland but because of Covid, people in the UK thought otherwise.

This 'TMB' had also been on my list for some time so this was a wonderful alternative!
Not a Scottish adventure but 11 days of hiking through France, Italy and Switzerland.

Wednesday, September 9, flew to Geneva, from there by the

Alpybus

to

this hotel

(which was then also the starting and ending point of my tour and where I left my hand luggage) to start the next day.

Of course, I prepared this trip well (see, among other things, the resources at the bottom of the page) but it was a coincidence that, as the starting point of this long round trip around Mont Blanc, I ended up in Les Houches. I initially planned to travel by train and there is a station there. (So you can start this wonderful tour in all the villages on the route).

The first afternoon I walked into the village to buy gas tanks and a bite to eat I saw that this round, see start and finish arch in photo, is taken very seriously!

I am keeping this report mostly "simple" (high expectations, read the promise "to deliver an Oscar-worthy film" of the latest Scotland adventure are in fact still unfulfilled).

Therefore below, after the map (with my route updated daily along the way in red), a short (separate) page for each day starting with an image of the activity in Komoot. Below that, for that particular day, briefly (max. 5 photos/videos per day) the best images.

Thereby, only the picture of the TMB Logo on this page is "borrowed," the rest taken with Go Pro or phone.

I had resolved to film/photograph this adventure a little less but then once you walk again in those beautiful surroundings.................

Looking back at it myself, it has indeed become an impressive round of hiking!

At the top of this page you'll find the totals of this adventure (208 kilometers with 11,780 altimeters) in which I especially want to emphasize that I hiked wonderfully quietly all day!

Average over a day does not exceed 2 km. per hour.

If you then start hiking at 08:30 in the morning on a standard day andput up your tent again at 20:00
(with breaks during the day also, very, very regularly!) you still manage to cover distances.

Below is another picture of the total route in Komoot (looks like an advertisement) and below that my sources and the link to the first page.

So a total of 11 links (always at the bottom left of the page) to 11 (hiking) days/pages.

Resources:

• 
  This page
  on the website of 'on the road'.
• The official page with
  
  this interactive map
  
  .
• At the very last minute, online, bought 2 more booklets from Noes Lautier from which I got "not to be missed" information.
  (nice anyway, both information and pictures, for the bookshelf!)
• This site I found only after walking this wonderful trail myself but contains a lot of information.

Below is the link to the first day:

To Day 1