Tour de Mont Blanc

If you’re a fair-weather walker who is embarking on a longer or more strenuous trip than normal, it can be difficult to decide what additional …

Our final stage of the Tour de Mont Blanc took us over high mountain passes, with panoramic views of the peaks and valleys surrounding us. …

When my friend Julia and I started walking the Tour de Mont Blanc three years ago, we weren’t convinced that we needed walking poles at …

Sometimes on the Tour de Mont Blanc I felt like a mountain goat, leaping from rock to rock down a steep path made up of …

Here we go again on the Tour de Mont Blanc! This was the fourth (and we hoped the final) year that my friend and I …

Having crossed the border into Italy, we spent the night at Rifugio Bonatti and were nearing the end of this year’s walk on the Tour …

Before walking the Tour de Mont Blanc, I hadn’t given much thought to the possibilities of altitude sickness. Together with my friend Julia, I walked …

The previous day we’d crossed the jagged mountain peaks from Switzerland into Italy. Now, on Day 8 of our Tour de Mont Blanc walk we …

Today’s walk on the Tour de Mont Blanc would take us from Ferret in Switzerland, over the high mountain pass into Italy. The previous day’s …

Our previous year’s Tour de Mont Blanc walk had taken us across the mountains from France into Switzerland. Now our train from Geneva airport was …

In this travel podcast (No 21 in my podcast series) I’m walking the Tour de Mont Blanc with my friend Julia. The TMB, as it’s …