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The Tour of Mont Blanc is one of the best hikes in the world. Duncan Boar, a guide with Tough Mountain UK, sends news that there is now a website that helps you plan a self-guided route on the TMB. It has a list of accommodation in each of the villages with prices and email/phone …
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My friends Greg and Helen Kolodziejzyk just completed the Tour du Mont Blanc. And had a fantastic time. 🙂 more photos Check our TMB information page.
World → Europe → Alps → TMB One of the best hikes in the world Tour of Mont Blanc Often called TMB (Tour du Mont Blanc) Note: This page is a stub. You can recommend improvements by leaving recommendations or links in the comments on this page. Our editors will consider them. Thanks for your …
Dave and Brenda’s Tour of Mont Blanc is a concise trip report on how two Americans completed the famed TMB in the Alps. Start at the beginning – Table of Contents – Motivation and Preparation … airline tickets from Detroit to Geneva and set about ordering equipment and getting into shape. Since we are both …
Richard Tulloch’s amusing summary of his early season trek on one of the very best hikes in the world. The full circuit of Europe’s highest range is some 170km long and takes about 60 hours of walking. Most people do it in 8-12 days. …. It’s staggeringly beautiful terrain – or is that my pack …
Another great Photodiary of a Nomad trip report from June 2010: … A 170 km circumnavigation of the highest mountain in the European Alps, it is truly one of the classic treks, not only for its splendid scenery and demanding geography, but for its history. For thousands of years, people have been passing through this …
Carol gives a shout out for Alpine Exploratory, a company specializing in walking and trekking holidays in the Alps. They did the “self-guided” version of the tour. I think self-guided is a nice compromise. You don’t need to follow behind your group (like sheep). But you have experts who speak the local languages setting your …
Laura Jones, a reporter from the U.K., hiked a 10 day tour: … the lovely thing about the TMB is that the drama of those awesome panoramas of glaciers and mountain peaks are interspersed with walking green valleys filled with Alpine flowers, twisty turney streams, chalky blue mountain lakes – and if you’re lucky marmosettes. …
The Tour of Mont Blanc is one of our top 10 hikes in the world. Marc Sebastian Pelzer has done 3 TMBs since 2003, in 2007 remembering to bring his wife Romana. Marc posted an excellent trip report of their 2007 adventure: Approximately 175 kilometers and 12,000 vertical meters ascent and descent around the mountain …
Who wants to plan a trip to the Tour of Mont Blanc? See the rest of this AMAZING photo set by OneEighteen on flickr. Details on our Tour of Mont Blanc information page.
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