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 …

The second half of my walk on the Tour de Mont Blanc earlier this September took me and my friend Julia over high mountain passes. …

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 Julia and …

We’d arrived at Rifugio Bonatti the night before and were nearing the end of our 2012 walk on the Tour de Mont Blanc. The Refuge …

Last September, my friend Julia and I completed a 4-day walk on the Tour de Mont Blanc, experiencing a few aching limbs, but no major …

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 Travel Podcast 21 I’m walking the Tour de Mont Blanc with my friend Julia. The TMB, as it’s known, is a long distance mountain …