The Mont Blanc will be the center piece of your Tour du Mont Blanc, or your starting point if you hike the Chamonix to Zermatt Haute Route. It reaches as high as 4810 meters up …
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Extraordinary Mountain Clouds: Part 1 – Introduction When hiking in the Alps you have a very good chance of seeing some extraordinary clouds. Because mountains – especially if a mountain is the highest in its …
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Packing list for the Tour du Mont Blanc I often get asked for a packing list for the Tour Du Mont Blanc. This summer I guided the Tour du Mont Blanc five times and my …
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My favourite sound of the Mont Blanc massif is the thin, trilling, whistling call of alpine choughs (Pyrrhocorax graculus). Like many other members of the crow family, these birds have shiny black feathers, but alpine …
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One of the wild animals you might see while hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc or the Chamonix Zermatt Haute Route is the alpine marmot (Marmota marmota). Sometimes you’ll see them scurrying around looking for …
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