This was my choice of 60th Birthday holiday. (Julie's
50th Birthday holiday was Patagonia).
The TMB is a walking tour of a little over 100-miles with over
32000ft of climbing. Several companies offer guided tours of this route, and we
opted for the Classic Tour provided by KE Adventure - it was an excellent trip!
Below is a selection of photos from the trip. These photos are not
a scratch on those taken by Mr Li, one of the eight other folk on the tour with
us. I will update this page when I have links to other photos.
(Most of) The Gang: left-to-right: Mr Li, Joe, yours truly, her
indoors, Amelia, Donna and Joanne.
Chris, our excellent guide, was just too tired to stand
Serena is taking the photo and Price somehow failed to feature
We arrived in Argentiere one-day ahead
of the formal start of the trip. We took a cable car up to a trailhead taking
us to fabulous views of the glacier immediately above Argentiere.
It was a beautiful sunny day, and we were treated to fine views of
the glacier
Below are a few photos of our TMB.
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A bridge crossing early on the trek
Through rich vegetation
Cloudy at times, but the scenery is still beautiful
Lakes blue with glacial flour
Into Italy, and the only occasion we got to see the summit of Mt.
Blanc
Brief though it was, we saw the summit
And then one moment later the summit was gone again
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Flowers
and mountains: what the Alps does best
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On and on, Chris pushed us on
Not that we needed much pushing
Up and up
And across, on occasions
Through fields of rubble, on we went
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And the 'difficult' bits, all taken in their stride
Fabulous mountain scenery!
All contributed to a great holiday!
Many Thanks to Chris and all our new friends on Le Tour de Mt.
Blanc.