The GR5 Trail - Trekking through the French Alps

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'A Cicerone aim is to give you a good day out in the mountains and this book offers you plenty. When I revisit this trail, this book will be going in my rucksack!

'A classic alpine trail well within the capability of any strong walker, the GR5's red paint flashes run some 400-450 miles from the shores of Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean coast at Nice along the French side of the border with Italy. The GR5 keeps generally very high, initially among the pastures and meadows and under the great glaciers and peaks, these gradually giving way, as the coast is slowly approached, to the drier and hotter forests and scorched hills with their cicada chorus. In good weather the GR5 does not involve technical challenges and it is well served with accommodation linked by rail and bus.'

(Strider, August 2008)

'This 31-day trail has to be one of the great mountain walks of Europe. This one-volume guide must be praised for it’s comprehensive nature. The photos are seductive and the whole guide makes a highly interesting read.'

(Irish Mountain Log, Spring 2009)