The Tour of Mont Blanc Complete two-way trekking guide

by Reynolds, Kev

• ISBN13: 9781786310620
• ISBN10: 1786310627
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-06-30
• Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited

Summary

Every year thousands of walkers embark on the Tour of Mont Blanc, a 170km route that is recognised as one of the world's classic walks. This guidebook contains in-depth route description for both the classic 11 day anti-clockwise circuit and an alternative 10 day clockwise trip. The guidebook is packaged with a map booklet containing official 1:25,000 IGN mapping that covers the entire TMB route, and urban maps for the major centres of Chamonix, Courmayeur, Les Contamines and Champex. Complete with a French-English glossary, comprehensive notes about accommodation options and transport details, this guide provides all the information needed for planning and completing a trip around the spectacular Mont Blanc massif.

Author Biography

A lifelong passion for the countryside in general, and mountains in particular, drives Kev's desire to share his sense of wonder and delight in the natural world through his writing, guiding, photography and lecturing. Spending several months every year among various high mountain regions researching guidebooks, makes him The Man with the World's Best Job; a title he aims to keep by remaining active for another 100 years at least. Kev has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Cicerone since the 1970s, producing 50 books, including guides to five major trekking regions of Nepal, and to numerous routes in the European Alps and Pyrenees, as well as walking guides for Kent, Sussex and the Cotswolds and he has several more books in the pipeline. His latest book, A Walk in the Clouds, is a collection of autobiographical short stories recording 50 years of mountain travel and adventures. He is also the contributing editor of the collaborative guide Trekking in the Himalaya. A frequent contributor to outdoor magazines, Kev also writes and illustrates brochures for national tourist authorities and travel companies. When not away in the mountains, Kev lives with his wife in a small cottage among what he calls 'the Kentish Alps', with unrestricted walking country on the doorstep. But he also travels throughout Britain during the winter months to share his love of the places he writes about through a series of lectures.