Mont Blanc Walks - A Walker's and Trekker's Guidebook

50 of the best walks and 4 multi-day treks, covering both French and Italian sides of Mont Blanc and based around Chamonix or Courmayeur. Multi-day treks for Vallorcine to Plaine Joux, the Tour des Aiguilles Rouges, Vallorcine to Servoz and a circuit of the Italian Val Ferret.

Mont Blanc Walks

50 of the best walks and 4 short treks

Author

Hilary Sharp

Cover

Paperback - PVC

Edition

First

ISBN_13

9781852844141

Availability

Reprinted

Price

£12.95

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Front Cover (1)
Location Map (1)
Overview Maps (1)
Sample Routes (1)
Sample Photos (2)

Seasons

Mid-June to mid-September is the main season; before this there will be snow at higher and possibly lower levels, and earlier and later the huts will not be open.

Centres

St Gervais, Les Contamines, Servoz, Les Houches, Chamonix, Argentiere, Vallorcine and Courmayeur on the Italian side.

Difficulty

Mainly day walks, with some shorter walks and 4 short treks. Some summits. Ranges from easy walks to tough routes for experienced high-mountain walkers.

Must See

Lac Blanc, the balcony routes, the Chamonix Aiguilles, Mont Blanc on clear days and (even better) clear evenings. Alpine flowers and wildlife. Chamonix is an experience too.

The best-scale maps available for summer walking in the Mont Blanc region are the 1:25,000 (4cm:1km) and four of the French Institut Géographique Nationale (IGN) Top 25 series cover nearly all the walks featured here.

They are:

IGN Top 25 3630 OT Chamonix Massif du Mont Blanc for all walks in the Chamonix valley from Chamonix northwards
IGN Top 25 3530 ET Samoëns Haut Giffre for all walks west of Chamonix
IGN Top 25 3531 ET St-Gervaisles- Bains Massif du Mont Blanc and IGN Top 25 3531 OT Megève Col des Aravis for those walks to the south of the Chamonix valley.

In addition to these, the north end of Lac d’Emosson is covered by the 1:25,000 map Carte Nationale de la Suisse 1324 Barberine.

The walks around Courmayeur are on the Italian 1:25,000 Istituto Geografico Centrale (IGC) 107 Monte Bianco Courmayeur La Tuile Chamonix Mont Blanc. Some are also on the IGN Top 25 3531 ET St-Gervais-les-Bains Massif du Mont Blanc.

A 1:50,000 (2cm:1km) map is useful to get an overview of the region. The whole area is covered by the IGN Rando Editions map A1 Alpes Pays du Mont Blanc. (NB This map uses French names for all places, including those in Italy. These names may be in Italian on the 1:25 000 map but will still be recognisable.)