About Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc, at 15,777 feet the highest peak in Western Europe, anchors a massif of granite spires and tumbling glaciers on the border of France and Italy. At its feet sits Chamonix, alpinism's storied capital, from which the Aiguille du Midi cable car rockets visitors to a needle-top terrace at over 12,600 feet — arguably the most spectacular viewpoint in the Alps, with the white dome filling the sky and the Vallée Blanche pouring away below.
Around the mountain runs the Tour du Mont Blanc, the most celebrated walking circuit on earth: roughly a hundred miles through three countries, over flowered passes and past cheese-making hamlets, with the massif revealing a new face at every turn — the Chamonix aiguilles, Italy's sheer Val Ferret walls above Courmayeur, and the balcony trails of the Swiss side. Trekkers do it in stages; day walkers can sample its finest hours and sleep in comfort in the valleys.
Pavlus Recommendations
How our planners would spend a day in Mont Blanc.
Ride the Aiguille du Midi
Chamonix's legendary cable car climbs nearly 9,000 feet in twenty minutes to a summit terrace eye-to-eye with Mont Blanc. Clear-morning tip: go at opening, before the clouds build.
Walk a Tour du Mont Blanc balcony stage
The Grand Balcon Sud above Chamonix, or the Courmayeur-side Val Ferret, serve the circuit's most famous panoramas in a single glorious day.
Cross to Courmayeur for lunch
Through the tunnel or over the Col de la Seigne, the Italian side answers French mountain culture with polenta, Aosta wines, and its own staggering wall of granite.
Tours That Visit Mont Blanc
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