The complete circuit. Three countries, 164 kilometres, and every single col.
The Tour du Mont Blanc is the long-distance hike that every other long-distance hike gets compared to. It circles the Mont Blanc massif through France, Italy and Switzerland, covering roughly 164 kilometres and more than 10,000 metres of ascent over eleven days.
Nothing on the route is technical. There is no scrambling, no rope, no exposure that a confident walker cannot handle. What the trail asks for instead is endurance: most days involve a climb of 700 to 1,300 metres, and you do it again the next morning.
This is our full-circuit trip, and it is the one we recommend if you want the whole thing. You start and finish in Les Houches, you cross every border on foot, and you walk into the same village you left eleven days earlier having gone all the way around the mountain.
No day on any of our TMB trips is easy. Most days climb 700 to 1,300 metres. Choose based on how many hard days in a row you are ready for.
11 stages
The classic opening. A lift-assisted start to Col de Voza, then a long, forgiving descent through pasture and forest into the Montjoie valley.
Up the old Roman road to Col du Bonhomme and Col de la Croix du Bonhomme, the first taste of high, open ground above 2,400 m.
Over Col de la Seigne and into Italy. The moment the Mont Blanc massif opens up on your left is the one everybody photographs.
A balcony traverse high above the valley, finishing with a steep drop into Courmayeur's espresso bars and cobbled streets.
A steady climb to Rifugio Bertone, then the celebrated Mont de la Saxe ridge with the Grandes Jorasses filling the sky.
The longest day. Grand Col Ferret at 2,537 m marks the border into Switzerland and a complete change of landscape.
A gentle valley day through Swiss hamlets and hay meadows, ending at the lake in Champex. The legs get a rest.
Over the Bovine route through cow pasture and forest, with a long view down the Rhône valley before dropping to Trient.
Back into France over Col de Balme, where the whole massif lines up ahead of you in one view.
The short, spectacular day: ladders bolted to the rock, then the Grand Balcon Sud traverse above Chamonix.
The closing loop over Le Brévent, with the biggest descent of the tour and a last full-frontal view of Mont Blanc.
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11.999 kr.
per person
8 nights in mountain refuges and guesthouses (dormitory rooms) plus 2 nights in a 2-3 star hotel. 9 breakfasts and 10 dinners.
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