Tour du Mont-Blanc
The Tour du Mont-Blanc (abbreviated TMB ) is a long-distance hiking trail in the Alps .
Route
The route runs around the Mont-Blanc group , passes through three countries ( France , Italy and Switzerland ) and is part of the GR long-distance hiking network . The length is about 170 km with about 10,000 meters of altitude . It is usually done counterclockwise in seven to ten days.
On the French side of the road from the valley that leads Arve (with the main towns Chamonix and Les Houches ) over the Val Montjoie and the center of Les Contamines-Montjoie in the community to Bourg-Saint-Maurice belonging des Glaciers Vallée . From the hamlet of Les Chapieux you can then cross the Col de la Seigne to the Rifugio Elisabetta Soldini Montanaro in Italy and through the Val Veny to Courmayeur . Northwards it now goes over the Italian Val Ferret over the Grand Col Ferret into the Swiss Val Ferret to Champex-Lac .
Different variants run south from Martigny to Trient VS ; the high alpine route leads over the Val d'Arpette and the 2665 m high Fenêtre d'Arpette . From Trento, in turn, there are various pass routes back to France.
Stages
The following data were determined with GPS and barometer .
| begin | The End | kilometre | time | Ascent | descent |
| Les Houches | Refuge du Truc | 12.8 km | 4:59 | 1536 m | 775 m |
| Refuge du Truc | La Balme | 11.4 km | 3:10 | 544 m | 601 m |
| La Balme | Les Mottets | 15.9 km | 4:23 | 1136 m | 1038 m |
| Col de Chercroui | Courmayeur | 5.78 km | 1:20 | 88 m | 796 m |
| Courmayeur | Rifugio Bertone | 4.12 km | 1:47 | 727 m | 0 m |
| Rifugio Bertone | Rifugio Elena | 19.5 km | 5:06 | 1163 m | 1086 m |
| Rifugio Elena | Champex | 28.2 km | 7:44 | 1045 m | 1656 m |
| Champex | Le Peuty | 13.6 km | 6:01 | 1213 m | 1274 m |
| Le Peuty | Tre-le-Champ | 15.7 km | 5:25 | 1219 m | 1108 m |
| Tre-le-Champ | Refuge Flegere | 7.99 km | 3:18 | 855 m | 413 m |
| Refuge Flegere | Les Houches | 19.6 km | 6:25 | 889 m | 1773 m |
| Total: | 173.5 km | 55 hours | 11.603 m | 11.895 m | |
Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc
Since 2003, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) has been taking place on a route that largely runs along the Tour du Mont-Blanc, an ultra- marathon in which the best runners need a little more than 19 hours to complete the route.
Web links
- Tour description on wandersite.ch
- Walking the TMB , English information site
- Hike around Mont Blanc: In the shadow of the merciless , article by Ulrike Koltermann in Spiegel Online , August 4, 2011
- Amazing Tour du Mont Blanc - Trip of a lifetime , article by Tobias Holzleitner in worldtrip-blog.com , October 15, 2015
- Comparison of the route with the UTMB
Individual evidence
- ↑ 15ème Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB) . statistik.duv.org. Retrieved November 16, 2019.