This, says “Trekking, the Tour of Mont Blanc”, is the easiest stage of the TMB. Looking at the stats, it […]
Rifugio Bonatti to La Fouly
Tom was hard to rouse this morning. He blamed being cold overnight in our somewhat austere three bed room. We […]
Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti
The guide says this is the toughest and most spectacular stage of the TMB and having just finished it, I […]
Cabin du Combale – Courmayeur
Good morning Italy. Our bedroom windows this morning framed perfect little landscapes of green hills and distant snowy peaks soaring […]
Les Mottets to Cabin du Combal
The sky was bright and clear when we got up for our unfeasably early breakfasts. The sun was lighting the […]
Les Contamines – Refuge de Mottets
They do a good breakfast at the Hotel Chemenaz. So good that we each had at least three. But after […]
Les Houches to Les Contamines
Right, this is it then. There will be no sloping off to a bijou coffee shop, or deciding that […]
The Tour Mont Blanc
We are in Les Houches in the shadow of the Mont Blanc massif. And very massif it is too… The […]
So long Canada…
The end of a trip always seems to be dominated by the mundane; packing, dumping stuff you no longer need […]
The Iceline
Our last proper day in the Rockies, so what to do? The one hike that keeps coming up when […]
